Customizing configuration parameters

You can use the Config Parameter tab to customize configuration parameters for various BMC IT Business Management Suite components. For example scheduler, enabled modules, report settings, alert configuration parameters, time card settings, wiki config parameters, server settings, and cache.

Warning

Any changes that you make to most of the configuration paramter settings require a restart of the application server. Therefore extreme caution is required to modify any of the parameter values.

To customize configuration parameters

Go to http://<hostName>:<port>/itm/magick.do.
- hostName: Server on which BMC IT Business Management Suite is installed
- port: Port number
Log on with your BMC IT Business Management Suite administrator user name and password.
Select the Config Parameter tab.
The following window is displayed:
Change the value of the required parameter.
For more information on the various configuration parameters and their description, see the table below.
Save your changes.

The following table provides a description of all the configuration parameters available in BMC IT Business Management Suite:

Alert configuration parameters

The following table lists the parameters for alerts in BMC IT Business Management Suite:

IT controls configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for configuring IT controls components of BMC IT Business Management Suite:

Enabled Module configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters used to determine the availability of the specified BMC IT Business management Suite module. The parameters set to Y for a module indicate that the user has the license for that module.

Report settings configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for report setting components of BMC IT Business Management Suite.

Note

Out of the four available Report Settings Conifig Parameters, only the REPORT_ENABLE value is supported. The functionality available with the REPORT_SERVER_NAME parameter is available through the Report URL field in the Admin interface of the BMC IT Business Management Suite.

Project life cycle configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for project life cycle components of BMC IT Business Management Suite:

Time card configuration parameters

The following table lists the parameters for time cards in BMC IT Business Management Suite:

Rate table selector configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for Rate table selector in BMC IT Business Management Suite.
A value of 0 indicates using the latest rate table as the effective table. A value of 1 means that user can specify an effective rate table.

Note

BMC recommends not to change this parameter value through this interface.
To set this parameter, you can use the Admin - Financial Settings - Exchange Rate Tables window, and then select Latest or Specify.

Maximum number of associations configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for maximum number of associations in BMC IT Business Management Suite. These parameters control the number of objects shown on one page, and choosers.

Warning

Changing the default value might cause performance issues in the system.

GUID object prefixes configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for GUID object prefixes for BMC IT Business Management Suite objects. GUID prefixes prefixes for external id that are visible to users.

Wiki help configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for setting Wiki help in BMC IT Business Management Suite. In this table:

wiki_help_adminguide is the config parameter for topic id of online admin guide help on the wiki server. The online configuration parameters, which start with "wiki_help_", show the dynamic online wiki help.
wiki_help_offline_admin_guide is the config parameter for local admin guide PDF file path. The admin guide PDF file will be exported by the user from wiki server. The offline configuration parameters, which start with wiki_help_offline_, show the static local PDF file.
The parent directory path of this offline pdf files will be configured by WIKI_HELP_OFFLINE_FOLDER_PATH.

Server configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for BMC IT Business Management Suite server configuration.
You can modify these values based on where BMC IT Business Management Suite is installed and the corresponding port number.

Cache configuration parameters

The following table lists parameters for BMC IT Business Management Suite cache.

Scheduler configuration parameters

The scheduler configuration parameters indicate the various jobs executed by BMC IT Business Management Suite scheduler. The value of scheduler configuration parameter represents the running frequency of each job which is written in terms of cron expression.
A cron expression is a string comprised of 6 or 7 fields separated by white space. Fields can contain any of the allowed values, along with various combinations of the allowed special characters for that field. Question mark is a non-standard character and exists only in some cron implementations. It is used instead of '*' for leaving either day-of-month or day-of-week blank. The fields are as follows(from Quartz Scheduler):

Field Name	Mandatory	Allowed Values	Allowed Special Characters
Seconds	YES	0-59	, - * /
Minutes	YES	0-59	, - * /
Hours	YES	0-23	, - * /
Day of month	YES	1-31	, - * ? / L W
Month	YES	1-12 or JAN-DEC	, - * /
Day of week	YES	1-7 or SUN-SAT	, - * ? / L #
Year	NO	empty, 1970-2099	, - * /

From the left to the right:

* * * * * *
┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬_ Year(optional)
│ │ │ │ │ |_____ day of week
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ └───── month (1 - 12)
│ │ │ └───────- day of month (1 - 31)
│ │ └───────── hour (0 - 23)
│ └──────────── min (0 - 59)
└──────────────- second(0-59)

The following table lists parameters for BMC IT Business Management Suite scheduler: