Properties of a Deploy Agent

To access the properties of a Deploy Agent:

1. Navigate to Tools > Administer tasks > Running deploy tasks to show Running deploy tasks tab.

2. Right click a Deploy Agent.

3. Click Properties of deploy agent

   

Configuration Panel

• Logging of additional/advanced runtime information:

  • Log additional information to EventLog: Configures the Deploy Agent to log warnings and errors to the event log of the source server of the task that caused the issues.

  • Log additional information to journal on dedicated Log-Server: Configures the Deploy Agent to log warnings and errors of all tasks to the event log of a specified server.

• Deploy agent work directory:

  • Folder: Shows where the Deploy Agent keeps its configuration file and temporary data.

• Timeouts (related to communication with Graphic Hubs): Changing the values of the timeout settings may have a significant impact on how Deploy Agent works. The default values have been tested in a LAN setting as well as for long range deploy tasks and should only be changed if the Deploy Agent has problems with servers that are connected via a slow / congested network or have a high server load. Increasing the timeout values may solve the problems in this case, decreasing will not improve the general performance of the agent and is not recommended.

  • Establishing communication timeout (in seconds): Specifies the maximum amount of time for a Deploy Agent is allowed to connect to a server. If the server does not respond in this period due to network characteristics or server load, it will be considered as offline.

  • Communication round trip timeout (in seconds): Specifies the maximum amount of time for the Deploy Agent to wait for a reply from the server. If the server does not respond in this period due to network characteristics or server load, the affected task may be paused by the agent.

  • Cluster failover timeout (in seconds): This option is relevant for agents that operate in a setting with a failover server. If a main server becomes unavailable, this timeout specifies the period that a task is waiting for a notification from the failover server to switch over. If this time exceeds, the agent will manually try to connect to the failover server.

  • Transfer Buffer Size: Adjust the buffer size used by the Deploy Agent for communicating with the Graphic Hub.

• Expert settings:

  • No. of attempts to reconnect to Graphic Hubs: Set the number of times the agent is to attempt to connect to Graphic Hubs

  • Time (in seconds) between attempts to reconnect: Set the time between each attempt to reconnect to Graphic Hubs

  • Do emergency pausing of real-time tasks: Click in the box to do emergency pausing of real-time tasks. Set the % of all objects or the number of objects.

  • Use original DDC behavior for non real-time tasks: This option is set globally for the Deploy Agent and affects all tasks. The major difference to the normal mode is that the “deploy under target folder” restriction of having no folder on source and destination that has the same UUID but an incompatible path does not apply. If the Deploy Agent discovers a folder with the same UUID but different path, a new folder with a new UUID is created in the expected path. This feature has a significant impact on the performance of the Deploy Agent, and should be chosen wisely as it will affect all non-real-time tasks that are executed by the agent

  • Do not overwrite if destination file is newer: If set, the file on the destination server will not be overwritten, if it has a modification date/time newer than the source file. The default setting (=option is not checked) will always overwrite the file with the source-file.

• Communications ports:

  • TCP port: Set the TCP port number.

  • UDP port: Set the UDP port number.

Version info Panel

The Version info panel shows the version information for:

• The Deploy Agent

• The Tasks scheduler

• The Graphic Hub interface

  

High Availability Panel

When a new High Availability Partner is configured, the configuration of these values will automatically transfer to the High Availability Partner:

• Timeouts:

  • Establishing communication timeout (in seconds)

  • Communication round trip timeout (in seconds)

  • Cluster failover timeout (in seconds)

• Expert settings:

  • Do emergency pausing of real time tasks

• Use the original DDC behavior for non real time tasks.

  IMPORTANT! When the High Availability Partner is disconnected, the configuration values return to their default values.

  Note: Since Deploy Agent version 1.4.1, it is possible to configure high availability partners using host names or IP addresses.