StableBit Scanner Advanced Settings

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.

The file is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\StableBit\Scanner\Scanner.Service.exe.config_default on the server.

Some older builds did not include the file, it can be downloaded here: http://dl.covecube.com/configs/Scanner.Service.exe.config

In order to put the file into effect, you will need to rename it from Scanner.Service.exe.config_default to Scanner.Service.exe.config and restart the server (or just restart the StableBit Scanner system service).

A fresh copy of the .config file is written to C:\Program Files (x86)\StableBit\Scanner\Scanner.Service.exe.config_default on upgrade, so your changes will not be overwritten.

Editing the config file

Open the file in notepad. You will see an XML formatted file. If you're not familiar with XML then all that you need to know is that the values that you can change look like this:

<value>True</value>

You can change this line to:

<value>False</value>

The setting name is right above that line:

<setting name="UnsafeDirectIo" serializeAs="String">

In this case the name is UnsafeDirectIo.

There are also numerical values and time values.

Settings

BitFlock

• BitFlock_NeverSubmit - Never auto-submit to BitBlock, regardless what is set in the UI.

Direct I/O

• DirectIO_DoNotCorrectSize - Do not correct the disk size based on the data that we get back from the disk directly.
• 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.

Legacy

• ErrorReportingOverride - Report errors to Covecube Inc. automatically.
• DirectIOOverride - Set to False to disable Direct I/O.
• SmartOverride - Set to False to disable all SMART calls.
• NotificationOverride - Set to False to disable WHS notifications.
• 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

• 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

• Smart_NoWmi - When enabled, Scanner will never use WMI to query for SMART data.

SMTP

• Smtp_ServerAddress - When set, email notifications will be sent using this SMTP server instead of Amazon cloud services (SES).
• Smtp_ServerPort - When set to a positive number > 0 it will override the SMTP port used to connect to the server. Otherwise the default port will be used.
• Smtp_UserName - When set, this username will be supplied to the SMTP server for authentication. Otherwise the connection will be anonymous.
• 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.

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 Control above).

<Peer>192.168.0.123</Peer>
<Peer>STORAGESERVER</Peer>
<Peer>192.168.0.123:27515</Peer>
<Peer>STORAGESERVER:27515</Peer>