2.1.2 General Options Settings

The following table describes the fields of the General Options Settings. These fields are configurable and can be set as per the user's requirement. For example, It allows the user to enable and disable the user accounts, the users can set the intervals to delete the older files, set password expiration intervals, and change user passwords and so on.

Table 2-1 General Options Fields

Field (* indicates a required field)	Description	Data Input Notes
Enable HA Safeguards	Enables HA Role change Validation.	Range: 0 to 1 Default: 1
* Enable MMI Access	Enables Machine-to-Machine Interface access on servers. A user must be authorized for MMI access in order to enable the feature.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 (Disabled), 1 (Enabled) Default: 1
* Export File Compression Type	The compression algorithm is used when exporting the data files.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 (None), 1 (gzip), 2 (bzip2) Default: 1
* Last Log in Expiration	Indicates the number of days of inactivity before a user account is disabled. The account must be re-enabled by the guiadmin user with admin group permissions. Entering a value of 0 indicates that the account is never disabled.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - 200 Default: 0
* Lock out Window	Indicates the amount of time (in minutes) in which exceeding the Maximum Consecutive Failed Log in attempts causes an account to be disabled. The account must be reenabled by the guiadmin user or any user with admin group permissions. Entering a value of 0 indicates the window is unlimited and disables the Maximum Consecutive Failed Log in attempts setting.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - unlimited Default: 30
* Maximum Consecutive Failed Login	Indicates the maximum number of failed log in attempts that can occur within the Lock out window before the account is disabled. The account must be reenabled by the guiadmin user or any user with admin group permissions. Entering a value of 0 indicates that the account is never disabled.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - 10 Default: 5
* Maximum Password History	Maximum number of passwords maintained in a history list before reuse of a password is allowed. Entering a value of 0 in this field indicates that no password history is applied and the same password can be reused.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - 10 Default: 3
* Maximum Records per Page	The maximum number of records to display per page.	Format: Numeric Range: 10 - 100 Default: 20
* Minimum Password Difference	The Minimum character difference between passwords. Ensure there is minimum difference in the new password in comparison with the older password that you set earlier. Entering a value of 0 in this field indicates that the same password can be repeated.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - 16 Default: 0
* Minimum Password Length	This field indicates the minimum number of valid characters required for a user password.	Format: Numeric Range: 8 - 16 Default: 8
* Password Expiration	The number of calendar days passwords stay active. By default, passwords expire in 90 days. Entering a value of 0 in this field means that passwords never expire. The expiration is retroactive: if the expiration is set to 30 days and it has been 45 days since the password was last changed, the password is now expired.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - 90 Default: 90
* Remote Server Data Export Cleanup	Remote Server Data Export Cleanup specifies interval (in days) to delete the files older than that specified day(s) from export directory. If the value is 0 , the cleanup is disabled. If the value is nonzero, for example if the value is 2, this denotes that the files older than 2 days will be deleted from export directory. A set procedure is in place for removing backup files older than 14 days (even if they haven't been transferred). Hence the backup cleanup is not required. Note: This cleanup runs every morning at 4:03 AM. It checks the value specified for Remote Server Data Export Cleanup. If the value is 0 no cleanup action is performed from export directory. If the value is non zero, the files older than that specified day(s) will be deleted from export directory. After the cleanup is done, transfer of deleted files to any of the configured remote server is not possible as the source files will be removed.	Format: Numeric Default: 0
* SAML Enabled	Enables SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication of users.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 (Disabled), 1 (Enabled) Default: 0
* SAML Inactivity Timeout	The time (in minutes) before SAML authenticated sessions expire.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 (no expiration) - 3600 Default: 120
* Single Sign on Session Life	Indicates the maximum session life (in minutes) for a single sign-on session. This occurs in a domain context. If the system is accessed through its IP address, then the domain context or Single Sign-On session life is not used.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 - 3600 Default: 120
* Site Upgrade Bulk Availability	Site based upgrade availability for bulk upgrade of MP groups. Note: Site Upgrade Bulk Availability cannot be changed when any site is being upgraded.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 (none), 1 (50%), 2 (66%), and 3 (75%) Default: 1
* Site Upgrade SOAM Method	Site based upgrade SOAM method. Note: Site Upgrade SOAM Method cannot be changed when any site upgrade is being upgraded. Bulk upgrade will upgrade all non-active SOAM servers together.	Format: Numeric Range: 0 (serial), 1 (bulk) Default: 1
* Durability Administrative State	The durability state of the system.	Format: Numeric Range: 1 = NO disk: data is replicated to the active secondary server NOAM only. 2 = NO: Secondary server NOAM pair data is replicated to both the active and standby NOAMs. 3 = NO DRNO: Disaster Recovery data NOAM is replicated to the active or standby secondary server NOAMs. Default: 1
Disabled Account	Message displayed when attempting to log in to a disabled account.	Format: Alphabetic Default: This account has been disabled.
Certificate Domain Name	Certificate Domain Name, used for Single Sign-On and HTTPS certificates, for example, yourdomain.com. Certificate Domain Name supports single domain for certificate management.	Format: Alphanumeric, hyphen, and decimal characters. Range: 255 characters Default: Blank
Failed Login Message	Message displayed on a failed log in.	Format: Alphabetic Default: Login failed
IP Authorization Denied Message	This is the message displayed when the IP Authorization is denied.	Format: Alphabetic Default: Access denied
Login Message	This is the message displayed on the log in screen, when the user logs in.	Format: Alphabetic Default: Welcome to the Oracle System Login
Welcome Message	This is the message seen after the successful log in. Note: You can customize the message appearance by using HTML code, for example, <br> to insert a line break.	Format: Alphabetic The %loginName%, %lastLoginTime%, %loginAttempts%, and %lastLoginIP% tokens are replaced when the welcome message displays.
Export Data Space Replace	The character to replace a space in the export group name when added to the export directory or filename.	Format: Alphanumeric Default: Underscore (_)