Administrator Guide > Domain Management > Domain Properties

Domain Properties

On the Manage tab, you can configure domain properties including database properties, gateway configuration, and service levels.

To view and edit properties, click the Manage tab. In the Navigator, select a domain. Then click the Properties view in the contents panel. The contents panel shows the properties for the domain.

You can configure the properties to change the domain. For example, you can change the database properties, SMTP properties for alerts, and the domain resiliency properties.

You can configure the following domain properties:

•General properties. Edit general properties, such as service resilience and dispatch mode.
•Database properties. View the database properties, such as database name and database host.
•Gateway configuration properties. Configure a node to serve as gateway and specify the location to write log events.
•Service level management. Create and configure service levels.
•SMTP configuration. Edit the SMTP settings for the outgoing mail server to enable alerts.
•Custom properties. Edit custom properties that are unique to the Informatica environment or that apply in special cases. When you create a domain, it has no custom properties. Use custom properties only at the request of Informatica Global Customer Support.

General Properties

In the General Properties area, you can configure general properties for the domain.

To edit general properties, click Edit.

The following table describes the properties that you can edit in the General Properties area:

Property	Description
Name	Read-only. The name of the domain.
Resilience Timeout	The number of seconds that an application service tries to connect or reconnect to the PowerCenter Repository Service or the PowerCenter Integration Service. Valid values are from 0 to 1000000. Default is 30 seconds.
Limit on Resilience Timeout	The maximum number of seconds that application clients or application services can try to connect or reconnect to the PowerCenter Repository Service or the PowerCenter Integration Service. Default is 180 seconds.
Restart Period	The maximum amount of time in seconds that the domain spends trying to restart an application service process. Valid values are from 0 to 1000000.
Maximum Restart Attempts within Restart Period	The number of times that the domain tries to restart an application service process. Valid values are from 0 to 1000. If you set the value as 0, the domain does not try to restart the service process.
Dispatch Mode	The mode that the Load Balancer uses to dispatch PowerCenter Integration Service tasks to nodes in a grid. Select one of the following dispatch modes: - MetricBased - RoundRobin - Adaptive
Enable Secure Communication	Configures services to use the TLS protocol to transfer data securely within the domain. When you enable secure communication for the domain, services use secure connections to communicate with other Informatica application services and clients. Verify that all domain nodes are available before you enable secure communication for the domain. If a node is not available, the secure communication changes cannot be applied to the Service Manager of the node. To apply changes, restart the domain. Set this property to True or False.
Service Resilience Timeout	The maximum number of seconds that application clients and application services can try to connect to the Data Integration Service or to the Model Repository Service. The default is 180 seconds.

Database Properties

In the Database Properties area, you can view or edit the database properties for the domain, such as database name and database host.

The following table describes the properties that you can edit in the Database Properties area:

Property	Description
Database Type	The type of database that stores the domain configuration metadata.
Database Host	The name of the machine hosting the database.
Database Port	The port number used by the database.
Database Name	The name of the database.
Database User	The user account for the database containing the domain configuration information.
Database TLS enabled	Indicates whether the database for the domain configuration repository is a secure database. True if the domain configuration repository database is secure. You can use a secure domain configuration repository if secure communication is enabled for the Informatica domain.

Note: The service manager uses the DataDirect drivers included with the Informatica installation. Informatica does not support the use of any other database driver.

Gateway Configuration Properties

In the Gateway Configuration Properties area, you can configure a node to serve as gateway for a domain and specify the directory where the Service Manager on this node writes the log event files.

If you edit gateway configuration properties, previous logs do not appear. Also, the changed properties apply to restart and failover scenarios only.

To edit gateway configuration properties, click Edit.

To sort gateway configuration properties, click the header of the column by which you want to sort.

The following table describes the properties that you can edit in the Gateway Configuration Properties area:

Property	Description
Node Name	Read-only. The name of the node.
Status	The status of the node.
Gateway	To configure the node as a gateway node, select this option. If the domain uses a secure domain configuration database, you must specify the truststore file and password for the database. To configure the node as a worker node, clear this option.
Log Directory Path	The directory path for the log event files. If the Log Manager cannot write to the directory path, it writes log events to the node.log file on the master gateway node.

Secure Domain Configuration Repository

If you configure a node as a gateway node and the domain uses a secure domain configuration database, you must specify the truststore file and password for the secure database.

If you configure multiple gateway nodes for the domain, set the database truststore file and password for all gateway nodes.

The following table describes the database truststore properties:

Property	Description
Database Truststore Password	Password for the truststore file.
Database Truststore Location	Path and file name of the truststore file for the secure database.

Note: To use a secure domain configuration repository database, the secure communication option must be enabled for the domain.

Service Level Management

In the Service Level Management area, you can view, add, and edit service levels.

Service levels set priorities among tasks that are waiting to be dispatched. When the Load Balancer has more tasks to dispatch than the PowerCenter Integration Service can run at the time, the Load Balancer places those tasks in the dispatch queue. When multiple tasks are in the dispatch queue, the Load Balancer uses service levels to determine the order in which to dispatch tasks from the queue.

Because service levels are domain properties, you can use the same service levels for all repositories in a domain. You create and edit service levels in the domain properties or by using infacmd.

You can edit but you cannot delete the Default service level, which has a dispatch priority of 5 and a maximum dispatch wait time of 1800 seconds.

To add a service level, click Add.

To edit a service level, click the link for the service level.

To delete a service level, select the service level and click the Delete button.

The following table describes the properties that you can edit in the Service Level Management area:

Property	Description
Name	The name of the service level. The name is not case sensitive and must be unique within the domain. It cannot exceed 128 characters or begin with the @ character. It also cannot contain spaces or the following special characters: ` ~ % ^ * + = { } \ ; : / ? . < > \| ! ( ) ] [ After you add a service level, you cannot change its name.
Dispatch Priority	A number that sets the dispatch priority for the service level. The Load Balancer dispatches high priority tasks before low priority tasks. Dispatch priority 1 is the highest priority. Valid values are from 1 to 10. Default is 5.
Maximum Dispatch Wait Time (seconds)	The amount of time in seconds that the Load Balancer waits before it changes the dispatch priority for a task to the highest priority. Setting this property ensures that no task waits forever in the dispatch queue. Valid values are from 1 to 86400. Default is 1800.

SMTP Configuration

Use the SMTP Configuration properties to configure SMTP settings for the domain. The outgoing mail server uses the SMTP settings to send alerts and scorecard notifications.

The following table describes the properties that you can edit in the SMTP Configuration area:

Property	Description
Host Name	The SMTP outbound mail server host name. For example, enter the Microsoft Exchange Server for Microsoft Outlook.
Port	Port used by the outgoing mail server. Valid values are from 1 to 65535. Default is 25.
User Name	The user name for authentication upon sending, if required by the outbound mail server.
Password	The user password for authentication upon sending, if required by the outbound mail server.
Sender Email Address	The email address that the Service Manager uses in the From field when sending notification emails. If you leave this field blank, the Service Manager uses Administrator@<host name> as the sender.

Custom Properties for the Domain

Configure custom properties that are unique to specific environments.

You might need to apply custom properties in special cases. When you define a custom property, enter the property name and an initial value. Define custom properties only at the request of Informatica Global Customer Support.