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The System page allows you to edit your IBM Alphablox system properties. The initial system properties were established during installation. The following text boxes and checkboxes will appear on the System page:
This entry establishes the least severe message level to write to a new log file. The default value is INFO.
This entry establishes the most severe message level to write to a new log file. The default value is FATAL.
Setting the same value on this and the New Log Start Message Level property (for example, ERROR) creates a log containing messages of only the specified level.
This setting determines how often a new IBM Alphablox log is created. Default is 1 day. A new IBM Alphablox log is also created whenever the server is started.
When this checkbox is selected, users must be authenticated before accessing IBM Alphablox resources and IBM Alphablox applications. When this checkbox is un-checked, all users log in as guest with no requirement for a password. By default, this checkbox is selected. This option is only available when the Server is running with Tomcat.
When this checkbox is selected, a user account is automatically created when a user logs into IBM Alphablox. It causes any user request (regardless of the password) to be accepted and the user to be granted access to IBM Alphablox. The user account is used to store user properties and settings, but the password is ignored. However, the password is updated each time the user accesses the server.
If this option is disabled later, users can directly access IBM Alphablox using their user names with the last known user password. They will be properly authenticated.
Note: Users with administrative privileges must use the correct password even if this option is enabled.
If you are relying on Windows NT or some other external system to authenticate users, then this option enables you to use that system for IBM Alphablox authentication, so that you do not have to maintain user accounts in multiple places. However, when this option is enabled, it is possible to have unauthorized access by people directly accessing into the server port.
It is strongly recommended that when using this option, you also specify an Authorized Client List. The authorized client list allows you to limit HTTP access to specific TCP/IP addresses. Thus, if you are automatically creating users, you should set the authorized client list to the TCP/IP addresses of the web servers who are authorizing users.
This lists the users authorized to access IBM Alphablox. The value is a comma-separated list of IP addresses and/or host names; wildcards are not permitted. The values in the list represent the set of clients which are authorized to access IBM Alphablox. An empty list indicates that all users are permitted to access IBM Alphablox.
It is strongly recommended that this option be used whenever Automatically Generate User Accounts is enabled.
Examples of acceptable entries:
This sets the number of messages saved to the message history area. When the area fills, the server wraps to the beginning, overwriting the oldest messages. The default value is 100.
When this checkbox is selected, the current state of IBM Alphablox, and all of its properties, are saved when its session ends. If administrators or assemblers made changes during a session and failed to save them, leaving this checkbox selected ensures that the changes are not lost.
This is the default theme used for the DHTML client.
This is the name of the SMTP server for sending email. Specifying an SMTP server provides the ability for applications that use Alphablox Speadsheets to have the ability to mail the spreadsheets directly from the application. Set the SMTP server to the name of your local SMTP mail server. For example, if the SMTP server is named mailserver, set the value to mailserver.
Sets the number of minutes to keep user objects in memory after last instance of a user session. The default, -1, keeps users loaded indefinitely (while the server is running). In conjunction with the “Load All User Objects” setting in the Startup properties (see Using Startup Page), this setting can be used for more efficient memory management and faster User Manager startup when you have many users.
After entering new values, click the Save button to save the changes. If you do not want to save your changes click the Cancel button.
Note: Be sure to establish the correct values for the other server properties before deploying applications.