Environment Variables
Advanced configuration of the server's behavior. These values affect all servers, they are read at the application start time. Usually it will not be necessary to change these values.
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After changing an option an IIS pool application restart may be required.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| AUTH_COOKIE_TIME | Valid time in minutes of the authentication cookies in transfer jobs or in the management web |
| BITS_UPLOAD_BUFFER | Write buffer size in bytes to use when receiving a file from a client upload |
| BROADCAST_PORT | Listening port to receive UDP server discovery packets from deployment clients. Must match the configured port in the clients. Make sure to allow the port in the firewall |
| COMPACTDATASTORE_EXPIRATION_TIME | Time in minutes during a server will retry to compact its datastore when the job couldn't start because other writing jobs were running |
| HA_MESSAGING_PORT | High Availability. Listening UDP port for the communication with other Host Provisioning Servers. Make sure to allow incoming UDP traffic in the firewall |
| HELPER_TIMEOUT | Timeout in seconds to try to contact the local helper service to submit commands |
| PUBLISH_FILETRANSFER_TIMER | High Availability. Interval in seconds to publish the current ongoing file transfer jobs to other servers |
| PUBLISH_SERVER_TIMER | High Availability. Interval in minutes to publish a server's state |
| PUBLISH_VDISKTASK_TIMER | High Availability. Interval in seconds to publish the ongoing vDisk task jobs to other servers |
| PURGE_BITSJOBS_TIMER | High Availability. Interval in minutes to delete the partial or errored orphaned files related to missing server vDisk files |
| PURGE_CLIENT_HISTORY_MAXAGE | Time in days to keep files transfer data received from clients used in statistics |
| PURGE_CLIENT_HISTORY_TIMER | Interval in minutes to launch the cleanup thread to remove expired transfer data |
| PURGE_FILES_TIMER | Interval in minutes to remove the vDisk files that no longer exist on the database because they've been removed |
| PURGE_FILETRANSFER_MAXAGE | Value in minutes where the transfer jobs will be shown on the GUI before being deleted |