Settings

You can configure the general settings for the Subscriber object.

Use Policy
Select to use the effective policy if you want to use the values set in the Tiered Electronic Distribution policy. This field is displayed if a Tiered Electronic Distribution policy has been created, distributed to the Subscriber server, extracted by the Policy/Package Agent, and enforced on the server.

If you select this option, the rest of the fields are dimmed and the policy settings are used instead. The current policy is displayed in parentheses.

Input Rate
The rate Distributions are received and extracted. The default is the maximum that the connection can handle. This rate is used to control a Subscriber's use of narrow bandwidth links.

Output Rates Based Upon Distribution's Priority
Sets the default output rate to minimize network traffic for Tiered Electronic Distribution objects. This determines the send rate for parent Subscribers to its subordinate Subscribers. The default value is the maximum that the connection can handle. Blank means that bandwidth is taken from third-party applications.

There are three output priorities where you can specify a rate:

• High Priority: These Distributions are sent before any Medium or Low priority Distributions.
• Medium Priority: These Distributions are sent after all High priority and before any Low priority Distributions.
• Low Priority: These Distributions are sent after all High and Medium priority Distributions.

Maximum Concurrent Distributions to Send
Specifies the maximum number of distribution threads that can be running concurrently for sending on Distributions. The default value is unlimited (blank field).

This applies only to parent Subscribers that pass Distributions to subordinate Subscribers.

Connection Time-Out
Specifies the number of seconds a Subscriber waits for a response from a Distributor (receiving) or a Subscriber (sending) before ending the connection. If a connection is ended during sending or receiving, the send does not start again until the next time the Channel schedule starts. It then picks up where it left off.

The default value is 300 seconds (five minutes). The available range in seconds is 1 to 60,000. This setting should be a reasonable time to wait for a response from one node to another.

This value should be increased on slow or busy links where longer delays are expected.

Working Directory
Specifies the directory to be used by the Distribution. It contains Distributions, persistent status, and temporary working files. The default path is:

• NetWare: sys:\zenworks\pds\ted\sub
• Windows: c:\zenworks\pds\ted\sub
• Linux/Solaris: /var/opt/zenworks/zfs/pds/ted/sub

  IMPORTANT: On NetWare^® servers, the contents of the directory can become very large. Therefore, we recommend that you change the default to a volume other than sys:.

Parent Subscriber
Specifies a parent Subscriber from which Distributions are received.

This field is where you can enable efficient distribution from a Distributor to its Subscribers. The routing information in a Distributor object’s properties accounts only for parent Subscribers (the tiered distribution model). End-node Subscribers (most of the Subscribers in your tree) should not be listed there.

This field allows you to specify for each end-node Subscriber that it receives its Distributions via a specific parent Subscriber, instead of directly from the Distributor. This reduces the workload on the Distributor server, and provides the tiered distribution model for efficient sending of Distributions.

This field is also useful for allowing a parent Subscriber to send a Distribution to an External Subscriber’s server in another tree.

Disk Space Desired To Be Left Free (MB)
Use this value to ensure there is enough free disk space for receiving Distributions. A Subscriber does not attempt to receive a Distribution if the disk space value set here is insufficient.

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