Dependency Manager Preferences

The Dependency Manager Preferences control how the current Dependency Manager (DM) works with consoles and agents.

You must be logged in as the admin user to access these Preferences.

To Change DM Preferences

1. In the Preferences window, select the Dependency Manager radio button.

   Wait while the values of the DM preferences are uploaded to the console from the SDS machine.

2. Make the changes that you want.

   If you want to change various preferences in different categories of the selected entity, you can browse between the categories without clicking Submit every time. Your changes are remembered.

DM Preferences – Clients

The DM acts as a server to the agents and to the console. These parameters determine connection behavior for the DM – Console and the DM – Agent.

• Idle Console timeout. Specifies the time limit in seconds before an idle console automatically logs out.

• Force change password. Automatically opens the Change Password window when a user first logs in to create a private password. This behavior is the default.

• Auto-saved inventories limit. Specifies the limit of the number of automatically saved inventories to be kept for comparisons and rollback. If no value is specified, older stored inventories are deleted.

• All agents read-only. Protects all hosts from change by executing all jobs done in simulate mode. This paramter is only applicable to certain testing environments..

• Pause Scheduled Jobs. Pauses all scheduled jobs while this checkbox is selected. Use this parameter before updating agents to ensure the application update is not interrupted by a job.

  When you clear this checkbox, scheduled jobs whose time to run has passed are run immediately

DM Preferences – Logs

These parameters give the path names and sizes for the DM logs on the SDS machine.

• Error log size. Specifies the size limit in kbytes of the error log. If no value specified, the log is deleted.

• Job log size. Specifies the size limit in kbytes of the job log. If no value is specified, the log is deleted.

• Error log file name. Specifies the full path name of the error log of the DM application.

• Job log file name. Specifies the full path name of the job log of the DM application.