Recommended Configurator settings for the NetVault Server (78596)

Date - JUN 2008
Affected Product & Version - NVBU 8.1 and later
Affected Module & Version - N/A
OS Version - All
Application Information - N/A


Symptoms:
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1. Notification Tab

Configure “Outgoing E-Mail Server(SMTP)”, “NetVault’s E-Mail Address”, and “NetVault’s Real Name” in the Mail Server section

Configure “Email address of system administrator” and “Real Name of system administrator” in the Global Notification section.

2. Process Manager Tab

Change “Shared Memory (Kb) Used for Process Table” to 16000
On Linux, Unix and OS X, ensure that you have enough shared memory configured, before increasing this value.

Change “Number of Progress Buffers Available to Plugins” to 200
If you will be running more than 30 jobs at the same time, contact customer support for help increasing this value beyond 200.

3. Logging Daemon

Configure “Disk Space Warning Threshold (percent full)”
Default value is 95%. Reduce this to 80% to give more warning of full disk.

Reduce “Auto-purge entries that are older than (days)”
The log window can take a long time to open, if the logs get to big. The default value is 120 days. 30 days is enough for most people.

4. Media Manager Tab

Check the “Use Barcodes as labels” box

Change the “Hours between scans for indexes to be compressed (0 = never)” setting to 12