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19-8 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

19.3.3.3 Agent Scheduler Configuration Settings

Agents are functionally a combination of data that is stored in Oracle BI Presentation Services and Oracle BI Scheduler. The elements in the Scheduler instanceconfig.xml file describe the behavior of all agents that run on a specific Oracle BI Scheduler. Table 19–4 describes each agent configuration element. Table 19–4 Agent Scheduler Configuration Settings Element Description Default Value Log_Dir Agents can create log files if exceptional error conditions occur. Log_Dir specifies the directory where these files are saved. The directory must be accessible to the Oracle BI Scheduler server. In Windows, the default installation runs the service as a system account, which prevents Oracle BI Scheduler from writing to or reading from network directories. If you put script files on network shares, or your scripts access network shares, then Oracle BI Scheduler must be run as a network user. For example: For information about log files, see Section 8.5.6, Diagnosing Issues with Agents. ibots LogPurgeDays Specifies the number of days after which old agent logs are deleted automatically. To prevent old logs from being deleted automatically, set the value to 0 zero. 7 NumGlobalRet ries A Web or mail server that has too many people logged on might reject new connections, including connections from Oracle BI Scheduler. To cope with such overload, an agent retries the connection. This element sets the maximum number of retries to obtain global information about what to deliver and to whom before the agent gives up. If you set this value to 0 zero, then no retries are attempted. 2 MinGlobalSlee pSecs Specifies the minimum number of seconds that the agent randomly sleeps after its connection is refused before it attempts to reconnect to the server to obtain global information about what to deliver and to whom. 3 MaxGlobalSlee pSecs Specifies the maximum number of seconds that the agent randomly sleeps after its connection is refused before it attempts to reconnect to the server to obtain global information about what to deliver and to whom. 10 NumRequestR etries After an agent has received the global information, it issues a series of unique requests to the server for each user. This element specifies the number of times Oracle BI Scheduler retries its attempts to connect to the server to issue these requests. If you set this value to 0 zero, then no retries are attempted. 3 MinRequestSle epSecs Specifies the minimum number of seconds that the agent randomly sleeps after its connection is refused before it attempts to reconnect to the server to issue requests. 2 MaxRequestSl eepSecs Specifies the maximum number of seconds that the agent randomly sleeps after its connection is refused before it attempts to reconnect to the server to issue requests. 10 NumDelivery Retries After a unique request has executed, the agent tries to deliver the results to specified devices. This specifies the number of times that Oracle BI Scheduler attempts to retry to connect to the server to deliver the results. If you set this value to 0 zero, then no retries are attempted. 4