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User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor
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Chapter 4 Modifying IPM Components
Setting IPM Database Preferences
For example, to set the business days to Monday through Friday, you would use the following setting
(the default setting):
ipm_business_day_0=0
ipm_business_day_1=1
ipm_business_day_2=1
ipm_business_day_3=1
ipm_business_day_4=1
ipm_business_day_5=1
ipm_business_day_6=0
By default, the business week is defined as 7 days, Sunday morning to Saturday evening.
Step 4 Save your changes to the IPM database preferences file.
Step 5 Run the database utility program to load your preferences.
In Solaris, enter:
# cd /opt/CSCOipm/bin
# ./ipm dbprefs reload
In Windows, enter:
cd c:\Program Files\Internetwork Performance Monitor\Server\bin
ipm dbprefs reload
Note You might want to make a backup copy of the database preferences file (ipmDbPref.conf) before
modifying it.
Database Preferences File Format
The contents of the default IPM database preferences file (ipmDbPref.conf) are shown in the following
example. This file is stored in the /opt/CSCOipm/etc directory in Solaris and in the c:\Program
Files\Internetwork Performance Monitor\server\etc directory in Windows.
##
# (C) Copyright 1998 Cisco Systems, Inc.
# All Rights Reserved#
# IPM Web Report Preferences#
# The default maximum number of rows returned to the browser
# in any web report can be controlled with ipm_max_web_rpt_rows.#
ipm_max_web_rpt_rows=500#
#
# IPM Database Preferences#
# This file contains the IPM Database Preferences used for
# data aging, data reduction, and web reporting.#
# To change these values, update the values below and run the command:
# ipmDbPref.sh -s#
# To display the values currently set in the database, run the command:
# ipmDbPref.sh#
# NOTE: Changing these parameters has no effect on daily, weekly and
# monthly data that has already been calculated. Only new daily, weekly
# and monthly data will use these new settings.#
# The weekly and monthly data are always kept forever.
# The ipm_hourly_stats_life setting determines the number of days that IPM
# stores hourly statistics information. You can change this to any number
# of days.#
ipm_hourly_stats_life=32#
# The ipm_daily_stats_life setting determines the number of days that IPM
# stores daily statistics information. You can change this to any number