Configuration files used in BMC ProactiveNet


This topic lists the configuration files used in BMC ProactiveNet.

File name

Location

Function

Can it be customized?

Sample

pronet.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Main configuration file in BMC ProactiveNet. Used to configure settings such as port numbers, scalability and tuning parameters and so on.

Yes

pronet.conf

pw/custom/conf

Configuration file in BMC ProactiveNet. The main difference between the pronet.conf file in the custom directory and the pronet.conf file in the pronto directory is that settings in custom/conf/pronet.conf are retained during an upgrade whereas the settings in pronto/conf/pronet.conf are overwritten if there are new settings.

Yes

admin_user

pw/etc/hosts

Used to configure the email addresses of BMC ProactiveNet administrators.

Yes

from_name

pw/etc/hosts

Contains the email address of the administrator from whom the email is sent in case of an event.

No

pnadmin.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for the BMC ProactiveNet Administration Console.

Yes

pnagent.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings (such as heap settings, number of threads) for the local agent.

Yes

pnagentcntl.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for the Agent Controller.

Yes

pndbsrv.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for the Sybase database.

Yes

pnhttpd.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for the Apache web server.

Yes

pnjserver.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for JServer.

Yes

pnjservlets.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for the servlets in JServer.

Yes

pnrate.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for the rate process.

Yes

pnservices.conf

pw/pronto/conf

Contains all the configuration settings for JBoss.

Yes

dbuser

pw/pronto/conf

Contains the database user credentials. The values in this file are encrypted.

No

Warning

Notes

If you want to customize the variables in the pronet.conf file for instance, copy the variables that you want to customize in the pw/custom/conf/pronet.conf file from the pw/pronto/conf/pronet.conf file and change the values of the variables in the file located in the custom folder.

 

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