Modifying report properties

This page provides the steps you must perform to modify the report properties. Perform the following steps to modify the properties mentioned:

  1. Navigate to the BMCProactiveNetReportEngineInstallationDirectory\ReportEngine\tools\jboss\server\all\conf\properties\smsConsoleServer directory.
  2. Open the application.properties file using a text editor.

  3. Edit appropriate properties described in the following table.

    Report configuration parameters

  4. Save the application.properties file.
Warning

Save the file using the Save as option, and select the type as All Files to preserve the .properties extension. If you save the file as a*.txt* (text) file using Microsoft Windows Notepad, the configuration changes may not be recognized.

To modify the property to enable Causal reports to display data

If you have configured the property to disable causal reports in any of the previous versions of Report Engine, after upgrade, if you want to enable the causal reports in Report Engine 9.5.02, perform the following steps:

  1. On the computer where you have installed BMC ProactiveNet Report Engine, using a text editor, open theinternal.properties file located at the following location:

    BMCProactiveNetReportEngineInstallDir\ReportEngine\tools\jboss\server\all\conf\ properties\smsConsoleServer

  2. In the file, search and identify the property com.bmc.sms.consoleserver.eventProcessor.eventsFromDatabase, and set the value to true.
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. Restart the BMC ProactiveNet Reporting Engine. For more information, see Starting and stopping the BMC ProactiveNet Reporting Engine.

 

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