Understanding advanced settings

Table 1. Certificate Authority (CA) certificate setting and its description

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Delete All CA Certificate Before Deployment

deleteAllCaCertificateBeforeDeployment

Delete CA certificates before deployment.
Table 2. Device discovery settings and their descriptions

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Retry Interval (Milliseconds)

retryInterval

Specify how long DDU waits before polling a device again after it fails to discover it.

Retry Count

retryCount

Specify how many times DDU tries to poll a device after it fails to discover it.

Include Secured Printer

includeSecurePrinter

Select to discover secured devices.

Exclude Addresses

excludeAddresses

Type the IP addresses or host names that are excluded when discovering devices.

Use the following formats to exclude IP addresses:

  • 10.195.*.* (wildcards for only the last two octets)

  • 10.195.y.yy (single IP address)

  • printerHostname.lexmark.com (host name)

Merge Output

mergeOutput

Merge the devices found after every discovery to the same device deployment and package creation input files.

Ddu’s Input File Name

dduInputFileName

Type the file name for DDU. The file generated can be used as an input CSV file for DDU.

Package Builder’s Input File Name

packageBuilderInputFileName

Type the file name for the Package Builder application. The file generated can be used as an input CSV file for the Package Builder application.

SNMP Version

snmp

Select the SNMP version that your network uses.

Community Name

communityName

Specify the SNMP community string value for SNMP versions 1 and 2c.

Note: The default value is public.

Username

user

Type the user name used to connect to your SNMP version 3 server.

Password

password

Type the password for the user name.

Minimum Authentication Level

minimumAuthenticationLevel

Select the minimum authentication level that is used to connect to your SNMP version 3 server.

Authentication Hash

authenticationHash

Select the hash algorithm that is used to connect to your SNMP version 3 server.

Privacy Algorithm

privacyAlgorithm

Select the encryption method used to connect to your SNMP version 3 server.
Table 3. Workflow logs settings and their descriptions

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Clear Logs Interval (Days)

clearLogsBefore

Specify the number of days before logs that are older than the specified value are removed.

Notes:
  • The default value is 15 days.
  • This task occurs during the deployment of a workflow.

Automatically Export Deployment Log

saveErrorLogs

If set to true, then logs are automatically exported after the deployment of a workflow. If set to false, then the status panel shows an option to export the deployment log.

Note: The default value is true.
Table 4. Firmware and Reboot settings and their descriptions

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Wait For First Polling (Milliseconds)

waitForFirstPolling

Specify how long DDU waits before polling the device if it has restarted either after updating the firmware or after it restarts the device.

Polling End Timeout (Milliseconds)

pollingEndTimeout

Specify how long before DDU stops polling the device that has restarted either after updating the firmware or after it restarts the device.

Polling Interval (Milliseconds)

pollingInterval

Specify how long DDU waits before polling the device again after it fails to discover it.
Table 5. Package license setting and its description

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Update Production License

updateProductionLicense

Update the license of an application.
Table 6. Thread pool setting and its description

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Thread Pool Size

maxThreadCount

Specify the maximum threads in a thread pool that the application can use.
Table 7. Deployment logger setting and its description

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Log Level

preferredLogLevel

Specify the level of detail of the application logs in the deployment.csv file.

Notes:
  • The Apache Log4j software provides the different levels of logs. For more information, see the documentation for Log4j.
  • The default value is Info.
Table 8. Large deployable settings and their descriptions

Setting

Configuration file element

Description

Web Service Read Timeout (Milliseconds)

readTimeout

Specify the number of milliseconds to wait for data after establishing the connection during deployment.

Request Timeout (Milliseconds)

requestTimeout

Specify the number of milliseconds to wait for a connection from the connection manager or pool during deployment.

Connection Timeout (Milliseconds)

connectionTimeout

Specify the number of milliseconds to wait for a connection to be established during deployment.