ControlPoint 8.8.1 - Administration Guide

Changing Settings to Improve Discovery Performance

These configuration settings display in the ControlPoint Settings list under the category Discovery Performance.

Show Menu Items That Require Discovery (DiscoveryEnabled)

If the ControlPoint Discovery Service has been configured, operations and parameters which depend on data collected by the Discovery process are enabled.  These include:

·Advanced Search

·Site Collection Activity Analysis

·Trend Analyses

·the following ControlPoint analysis parameters (where applicable):

§the Use cached data option

§the Site Collection Storage Analysis View storage for option.

When the ControlPoint Discovery Service is configured, the value of this setting is set to True automatically.  If it is set to False, all operations requiring Discovery will be disabled

Exclude Web Parts from the Discovery (EXCLUDEWEBPARTS)

The ControlPoint Discovery process does not, by default, collect data about Web Parts used in your environment, which would enable administrators to generate Web Parts analyses from the ControlPoint database cache. This is because, depending on the number of Web Parts in your environment, a significant amount of the total processing time may be required.  It is important to note, however, that when Web Parts are excluded from Discovery:

·Web Parts analyses can only be run on real-time (not cached) data, and

·the following list boxes will not be populated (that is, you will not have the option of selecting from a list of  Web Parts):

§Advanced Search - Web Parts Used

§Web Parts by Part / Web Parts by Site - Web Parts.

To include Web Parts from the Discovery process, change the Value of the ControlPoint Setting Exclude Web Parts from Discovery from True to False.

NOTE:  If you installed ControlPoint prior to version 5.2.345.0, the default value will be false.

Site Collections to Exclude from Full Discovery (URLEXCLUDE)

By default,  the ControlPoint Discovery process runs on all site collections within your SharePoint farm.  ControlPoint Application Administrations can, however, exclude site collections whose url contains a specified text string from both the nightly Discovery process and any interactive Discovery that is run on the entire farm.  

NOTE:  Remember that data in analyses run from cache can only be reported up to the date of the last Discovery

To exclude site collections that contain a particular text string from the Discovery process, enter the string as the Value for the ControlPoint Setting Site Collections to Exclude from Full Discovery.  Enter multiple text strings as a comma-separated list.

CAUTION:  If any part of a site collection's url contains the text string you specified, it will be excluded from Discovery.  Use caution in selecting strings to be sure you do not exclude more than you intend.  For example, the excluded string of "Test" would exclude "My Test Site Collection" but would also exclude "Product Testing."