Aurora properties and parameters

Depending on the configuration task that you perform in IBM OpenPages® with Watson™, you might need to edit the parameters in the aurora.properties file.

The <OP_HOME>/aurora/conf/aurora.properties file parameters are described in the following list.

Note: If you change the parameter values, you must restart the application servers.

Application server properties

aurora.appserver: The type of Java™ Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application that is used.; Possible value: websphere.
This setting is deprecated.
aurora.initialcontext.factory: Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) initial context factory.
This setting is deprecated.

Database properties

database.type: Type of database (Oracle or DB2).
database.URL: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) URL.
database.DRIVER: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver.
database.USERID: Database user name.
database.PASSWORD: Database password (encrypted).

IBM Db2® database properties

database.NAME: Database name.
database.HOSTNAME: Database hostname.
database.PORT: Database port.
database.CATALOG_NAME: Database catalog name.

Database pool properties

database.pool.minsize: Minimum number of connections.
database.pool.maxsize: Maximum number of connections.
database.pool.refresh.interval: Database pool refresh interval.
database.pool.testonreserve: Flag to test a connection before returning it from the pool.; Possible values: true or false.

Database connection test property

database.test.connection.sql: Specify a Microsoft SQL database with which to test the connection.; The default value is: select sysdate from dual.

Java Transaction API (JTA) properties

jta.initialcontext.factory: Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) Initial Context Factory.
This setting is deprecated.
jta.jndi.transaction: Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name for User Transactions.
This setting is deprecated.

Full text search properties

Note: These legacy settings are no longer used.

fulltext.index.directory: Full text index folder.
fulltext.index.exclude: File extensions to be excluded.; The default values are: xra xrl pagespec pagetemplate xrt cha xsd.

Java Message Service (JMS) properties

jms.initialcontext.factory: Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) Initial Context Factory.
This setting is deprecated.
jms.topic.RepositoryTopic: Java Message Service (JMS) topic name.
jms.topic.ResourceCacheTopic: Java Message Service (JMS) topic name.

Security service properties

security.accesstoken.timeout: Session token timeout, in minutes.; The default value is 3000000.
security.system.password: Password of the system OPSystem user.

AppServer specific properties

appserver.install.directory: The installation folder of the OpenPages application (OP_HOME).

Third-party reporting-specific properties

cognos.server

IBM® Cognos® Analytics gateway (as configured for your web server).

For example:

cognos.server = http://<host>:80/ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp

cognos.report.output.dir

Temporary folder for reports.

cognos.computation.server

Cognos computation server URL.

Logout URL property

Add new URLs with the name logout.url.<name>. The name can be anything.

logout.url.cognos: Cognos logout URL.

Application URL property

application.url.path: Base URL of the application.
Note: In a load balanced environment, the application.url.path value is the fully qualified domain name of the load balancer and its port number.

Application server WorkManager properties

workmanager.jndi.name: Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name of the application server work manager.
This setting is deprecated.
workmanager.impl.classname: Work manager implementation class.
This setting is deprecated.

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) properties

server.use.local.ejb: Must be true.
This setting is deprecated.

Other properties

enforce.browser.support: Enables or disables the Allowed Browsers feature. For more information, see Specify the browsers that can access IBM OpenPages.; Value: true or false