Console Preferences

Console Preferences let you control how the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise GUI operates, where files are to be stored, how it communicates with the system dependency server, and advanced background job options.

To Change Console Preferences

1. In the Preferences window, select the Console radio button.

   The preferences for the console are accessible by default.

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.

Console Preferences – Files

These parameters determine file upload and download times and let you set the path name of the web browser.

• File timeout. Specifies the time limit in seconds for a file to upload to or download from a remote host (see Opening Host Files).

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  Take into account local network traffic and physical distance when changing this value.

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• Path. Specifies the path to the web browser that Sun Update Connection – Enterprise opens from the Component Information window.

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  To find the path of the current browser, in a terminal window, type which browser.

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• Browser. Specifies the browser that Sun Update Connection – Enterprise opens.

Console Preferences – Jobs

These parameters are fine-tuning for running and monitoring jobs.

• Max items in a job. Specifies the warning limit for a job that is created in the Inventory Comparison window. The unit is the task items in a job.

  If no value is specified, the user is warned that job might be too big to succeed.

• Prerequisite details. Specifies whether to to show data in the Host Progress window that is found by local probes.

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  This preference is deselected by default to save on resources.

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• Status window refresh interval. Specifies the time interval in seconds between data adjustment of jobs status in the Jobs panel.

Console Preferences – Logs

These parameters are the path names and sizes for the console logs.

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

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

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

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