StableBit Scanner Advanced Settings - Revision history

Christopher at 19:11, 9 January 2017

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Alex: /* Direct I/O */

2015-10-29T03:36:30Z

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Christopher at 22:25, 5 November 2014

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Alex: /* Settings */

2014-04-08T15:12:18Z

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Alex at 15:51, 19 January 2014

2014-01-19T15:51:32Z

Alex: /* Settings */

2013-11-11T18:15:24Z

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Alex: /* Settings */

2013-03-27T22:13:23Z

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Alex: /* Settings */

2013-01-15T19:22:54Z

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Alex at 18:35, 17 September 2012

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← Older revision		Revision as of 19:11, 9 January 2017
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	* '''Smtp_Password''' - Must be set together with the user name.		* '''Smtp_Password''' - Must be set together with the user name.
	* '''Smtp_UseSsl''' - When set to True a SSL connection will be established with the SMTP server.		* '''Smtp_UseSsl''' - When set to True a SSL connection will be established with the SMTP server.
		+
		+	== RemoteControl.xml ==
		+
		+	Allows you to configure some of the settings for the Remote Control features of the DrivePool 2.x User Interface.
		+
		+	The file is located in '''C:\Program Files (x86)\StableBit\Scanner\Service\RemoteControl.default.xml''' on the server.
		+
		+	In order to put the file into effect, you will need to rename it to '''RemoteControl.xml''' and restart the server (or just restart the StableBit DrivePool system service).
		+
		+	Any time you upgrade, or reinstall DrivePool, it writes an updated '''RemoteControl.default.xml''' file, so it will include any updated settings but leaves the current '''RemoteControl.xml''' alone so it doesn't alter any of your settings.
		+
		+	=== MulticastDiscovery ===
		+	This setting is configured to be "enabled" by default, so that the User Interface will automatically find clients.
		+	However, you can set the value to "False" and this will only list entries that you have manually added to the "Peer" list.
		+
		+	The setting should look like this:
		+
		+	'''<MulticastDiscovery Enabled="True" />'''
		+
		+	=== Peers ===
		+	The '''Peers''' Section allows you to specify a list of computers that you want available, in cases such as a specific computer isn't picked up by the automatic discovery, or if you want to disable automatic discovery and manually list the computers available.
		+
		+	All clients must be running the same version of DrivePool, and you must have any additional balancer Plugins installed as well.
		+	==== Peer ====
		+	You need to manually create an entry for each computer to be added. You can use the computer's host/DNS name, or the IP address, and you can specify a different port (if the service is configured for that, see [http://wiki.covecube.com/index.php?title=StableBit_Scanner_Advanced_Settings&action=submit#Remote_Control\|Remote Control] above).
		+
		+
		+	<Peer>192.168.0.123</Peer>
		+	<Peer>STORAGESERVER</Peer>
		+	<Peer>192.168.0.123:27515</Peer>
		+	<Peer>STORAGESERVER:27515</Peer>

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 To change any of the options here, you will need to open the StableBit Scanner UI.
-Click on the '''Settings''' button in the toolbar and select '''Scanner Settings'''. Enable the '''Show advanced settings and information''' option, and hit "OK". You will only need to do this once, from now on, it will always display this option.
+Click on the '''"Settings"''' button in the toolbar and select '''"Scanner Settings"'''. Enable the '''"Show advanced settings and information"''' option, and hit "OK". You will only need to do this once, from now on, it will always display this option.
-Click on '''Settings''', and select the new '''Advanced Settings and information''' option.  Open the Configuration Properties tab. You will find a list of all the settings here, organized into section. You can also search for the setting you are looking for.
+Click on '''"Settings"''', and select the new '''"Advanced Settings and information"''' option.  Open the Configuration Properties tab. You will find a list of all the settings here, organized into section. You can also search for the setting you are looking for.
 Once you've made any changes, you will need to restart the service, or restart the computer. To restart the service, run "services.msc" on the system find the "StableBit Scanner Service" and restart it.

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 * '''BitFlock_NeverSubmit''' - Never auto-submit to BitBlock, regardless what is set in the UI.
 ==== Direct I/O ====
 * '''DirectIO_IgnoreSignature''' - Do not validate SMART data, just accept whatever the drive gives us.
 ==== Disks ====
 * '''''Disks_MaxDegreeOfParallelism''''' - Sets the number of threads to use when enumerating disks at startup.

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−	== Scanner.Service.config ==	+	== Advanced Settings ==
		+
		+	All these settings have been moved into the UI now, so there is no need for a config file.
		+	However, on the first startup, it will read the config file and import the settings.
		+
		+	To change any of the options here, you will need to open the StableBit Scanner UI.
		+
		+	Click on the '''Settings''' button in the toolbar and select '''Scanner Settings'''. Enable the '''Show advanced settings and information''' option, and hit "OK". You will only need to do this once, from now on, it will always display this option.
		+
		+	Click on '''Settings''', and select the new '''Advanced Settings and information''' option. Open the Configuration Properties tab. You will find a list of all the settings here, organized into section. You can also search for the setting you are looking for.
		+
		+	Once you've made any changes, you will need to restart the service, or restart the computer. To restart the service, run "services.msc" on the system find the "StableBit Scanner Service" and restart it.
		+
		+	== Scanner.Service.config (Depreciated) ==

	You can tweak advanced settings in Scanner by editing a .config file in notepad.		You can tweak advanced settings in Scanner by editing a .config file in notepad.

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 ==== Direct I/O ====
 * '''DirectIO_IgnoreSignature''' - Do not validate SMART data, just accept whatever the drive gives us.
 ==== Legacy ====
 * '''ErrorReportingOverride''' - Report errors to Covecube Inc. automatically.

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 ==== SMART ====
 * '''Smart_NoWmi''' - When enabled, Scanner will never use WMI to query for SMART data.
+==== SMTP ====
-Don't forget to rename the config file after you make the change and restart the server (or service), as noted at the top of this page.
+* '''Smtp_ServerAddress''' - When set, email notifications will be sent using this SMTP server instead of Amazon cloud services (SES).

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 === Settings ===
 * '''ErrorReportingOverride''' - Report errors to Covecube Inc. automatically.
 * '''DirectIOOverride''' - Set to False to disable Direct I/O.
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 * '''GoodIdentifyOverride''' - Scanner will not query certain disks for SMART or identification data because of some bad firmware on them that causes data corruption. If you have one of these disks and would like to force Scanner to query your disk, then set this to a regular expression of your disk model.
 * '''UnsafeDirectIo''' - The Scanner supports different methods of communicating with the disk directly, it needs to do this to obtain SMART data and identification data and to issue commands to it that provide additional functionality. The access methods are grouped into 4 groups, Internal and External, and for each, Safe and Unsafe. Methods that have been known to cause a system crash on a small percentage of machines are categorized as Unsafe and are disabled by default. If the Scanner is having trouble talking to your disk directly, you can enable Unsafe mode to see if you get better results.
 * '''Scanner_RunningFile''' - Create this file when the Scanner is actively scanning at least one disk and delete it when it's not scanning anything. Can be used for 3rd party integration, such as lights out.
 * '''Scanner_ScanWithDirectIo''' - Scan by sending sector verify commands directly to the disk. No data is transferred to the OS.
 * '''Scanner_DirectIoScanMaximumConcurrent''' - When scanning with Direct I/O, scan up to this many disks at the same time, per controller. Set to 0 for unlimited.
 * '''Scanner_DirectIoScanBusMaximumMBps''' - Only select the Direct I/O scan method on controller with speeds less than this number of MB / s. Set to 0 to always use Direct I/O regardless of controller speed.
 * '''Smart_NoWmi''' - When enabled, Scanner will never use WMI to query for SMART data.
 Don't forget to rename the config file after you make the change and restart the server (or service), as noted at the top of this page.

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   <setting name="'''UnsafeDirectIo'''" serializeAs="String">
-In this case the name is ''CoveFsLogSizeMB''.
+In this case the name is ''UnsafeDirectIo''.
 There are also numerical values and time values.