KB 015 – ABAP – Global configuration parameters and their functions
ABAP Configuration Parameters and their function
Symptom:
You have PowerConnect for Splunk installed and want to understand the function of each of
the global configuration parameters and identify which version of PowerConnect they are available in
The Table below outlines the parmeter name, its function and the version of PowerConnect it is
available for use.
| Parameter | Function | Version | Default Value |
| ARCHIVE_DAYS_TO_RETAIN | Number of days to keep metrics that have been successfully uploaded before purging them from the temporary storage | 4.00 | 3 |
| ARCHIVE_DAYS_TO_RETAIN_UNSENT | Number of days to keep metrics that have NOT been successfully uploaded before purging them from the temporary storage | 4.00 | 14 |
| ARCHIVE_DURATION_RUN | How often the archive job | 4.00 | 86400 (1 day) |
| MAX_PARALLEL_PROCESS | Maximum number of extractor running in parallel | 4.00 | 3 |
| MULTI_SERVER_DISTRIBUTION | Upload distribution method – SENDALL to upload metrics to all active server – ROUNDROBIN to distribute the metrics to all active server | 4.00 | SENDALL |
| RFC_GROUP | Allocate RFC group for parallelizing extractor | 4.00 | DEFAULT |
| INTERVAL_BEFORE_ABORT | If the last metric was extracted longer than the interval value, check job will abort extractor job because it assumes that extractor job is not running properly. | 4.01 | 3600 seconds |
| RFC_VERIFY_INTERVAL | the interval after last RFC error and before making another RFC call to an application server. | 4.01 | 300 seconds |
| RFC_VERIFY_TIMEOUT | Timeout for RFC verify. If the server doesn’t return value within the timeout period, the server will be flagged with error. The RFC verify is the same implementation as FM RFC_VERIFY_DESTINATION | 4.01 | 5 seconds |
| RESTART_EXTRACTOR_DURATION | To restart extractor job periodically | 4.03 | 82800 seconds (23 hours) |