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You can create and manage server configurations on the PredixionAdmin portal. Click Configuration to open the portal page on which your edit settings for Predixion servers and services.

The settings that you can view and manage on this page include the following:

• Global settings, including Predixion database names and R options
• Server settings, including updated to existing servers and adding new servers
• Notification settings, including notifier enabled/disabled status and SMTP options
• Engine settings, including enabled/disabled status of SSAS and R engines

Global Settings

Click Change in the Global Settings section to update the controller database, server database or administrator’s e-mail address and options related to the R engine.

When you install Predixion Insight, Setup creates two SQL Server databases: Predixion and PredixionDB. PredixionDB is the controller database, which is used to monitor state of the main (controller) server. Predixion is part of the core analytics engine. You cannot change the connection string to either database.

To change global settings:

1. Update the administrator email address.
2. Click Custom to define a custom support link instead of using the default link.
3. Click Require SSL for clients to require SSL and use the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP when connecting to the server.
4. In Download R Packages from, change the location of the R packages that you want to use.
5. In R Max session memory, specify the MBs the R session can use. 
6. In R Process Timeout in seconds, specify a timeout or use zero to indicate there is not timeout.     
7. Set R Process Priority to Normal, Low or High 
8. Click Save.

Notification Settings

Click Edit in the Notification Settings section to update notification options.

To edit notifier options:

1. Clear Enabled to disable notifications.
   When you change the status of notifications, it takes a few minutes for them to take effect. Users might receive notifications after the notifier is disables and likewise, it might take a few minutes for notifications to be sent after you enable the notifier.
   Notifications are not stored. If you disable the notifier and then enable it again, you do not receive notifications of changes to workspaces and packages that occurred while the notifier was disables.
2. In SMTP Server, replace the default localhost SMTP server with a different server.
3. In SMTP Server Port, specify the port that the SMTP server uses.
4. In From Email Address, type the email account to use in the From line of notification emails.
5. If you don’t want to use Windows Integrated Authentication, provide SMTP credentials: provide an SMTP Network user account and password.
6. In Email Domain, type the domain to receive email notifications.
7. Optionally, click Send Test Email to verify the notifier is configured correctly for email delivery.
8. Click Save.

Engine Settings

Click Edit for the analytic engine that you want to update: Predixion.Engine.R or Predixion.Engine.SSAS.

 

To edit engine options:

1. Clear or check the Enabled option.

   When you disable an engine it is not uninstalled and you can re-enable it at any time. However, the algorithms associated with the analytic engine will not be available in the model wizards and you cannot create models or goals using them.

2. Click Save.

Server Settings

In the Server Settings section you can, edit, or delete an existing server entry and create a entry for a server. You cannot add another node to a Predixion Enterprise Insight server by using this page. Contact Predixion support for assistance.

Edit Server Settings

Click Edit in the right-most column of the server to update.

To edit server options:

1. Update the analytics slot count.
2. Update Maximum Database Age.
   A value of -1 means that no maximum database age restriction is enforced.
3. Click Start Service or Stop Service to start of stop the service.
4. Click Refresh Status to see the current server status.
5. Click Create Queues to create a new message queue.
6. Click Save to save the changes.

Create Server

Click Create New Server to create an new server entry in an existing Predixion server.

 To create a server entry:

1. In Machine Name, type the name of the server.
2. Optionally, change the default value of Insights Analytics Slots Count.
3. Optionally, change the default value of Maximum Database Age.
   A value of -1 means that no maximum database age restriction is enforced.
4. Click Save.

 

 

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6/18/2015

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