Server Configuration Parameters

The server configuration parameter information on a PPM instance comes from the following three different sources:

  • KNTA_SERVER_PARAM_DEF_NLS table

  • server.conf file

  • KNTA_APPSERVER_PROPERTIES table

The KNTA_SERVER_PARAM_DEF_NLS table (definitions table) contains all of the server configuration parameters and their default values. The server.conf file contains a subset of the server configuration parameters in the KNTA_SERVER_PARAM_DEF_NLS table. If you specify the value for a parameter directly in the server.conf file, either manually or from the Administration Console, then that value supersedes the default value for the parameter in the KNTA_SERVER_PARAM_DEF_NLS table.

The KNTA_APPSERVER_PROPERTIES table contains the server configuration parameters and values that the PPM Server ultimately uses. Parameter values in the server.conf file are compared with those in the KNTA_SERVER_PARAM_DEF_NLS table. If a non-default value is specified for a parameter in the server.conf file, then the parameter is assigned that value in the KNTA_APPSERVER_PROPERTIES table. If a parameter exists only in the KNTA_SERVER_PARAM_DEF_NLS table, then the parameter is assigned the default value in the KNTA_APPSERVER_PROPERTIES table.

If you use Cygwin 2.8.0 or later on Windows, when you run some scripts such as kStart.sh, you encounter miscellaneous errors such as "Invalid username/password" or "Node cannot be found in server.conf" even when you provide correct information.

In this case, you should convert the server.conf file from Windows mode to UNIX mode by using the dos2unix command:

dos2unix <PPM_HOME>/server.conf

# transfer logging.conf

cd <PPM_HOME>/conf dos2unix *.conf

cd <PPM_HOME>/bin dos2unix *.sh