OLAP Miner User's Guide


OLAP Miner server configuration file elements

The following list describes the elements of the server configuration file:

?xml version="1.0"?
A standard required element that declares the XML version of the file. Do not change this element.

OMServerConfig
A standard required element that identifies which component of OLAP Miner these elements apply to. Do not change this element.

olap_server
Information about the computer where the OLAP server component of DB2 OLAP Server is located with which OLAP Miner will communicate. You can repeat this element to allow OLAP Miner to work with multiple OLAP servers. This element has two attributes:

address
The name or IP address of the computer where the OLAP server is installed.

alias
The alias name for the computer. This name is displayed in the OLAP Miner client to the user. It is also used when the directory structure is created to store OLAP Miner files. Do not change the alias after definitions are created for that OLAP server, unless you also change the corresponding directory name in the file system.

port
The port number that OLAP Miner server uses to listen for requests from any OLAP Miner client The default value is 1976. This must match the port number that is specified in the OLAP Miner client configuration file. This element is optional.

max_connections
The maximum number of connections that the OLAP Miner server allows. The default value is -1, which indicates the maximum number of connections is controlled by the number of connections allowed to the OLAP server. This element is optional.

max_kernel_runs
The maximum number of mining runs that the OLAP Miner server allows. The default value is 2. This element is optional.

power_user
Indicates the authority level users must have to a cube before they can work with deviation detection definitions that are associated with that cube. If users do not have this level of authority, they cannot create, edit, copy, rename, delete, or run a deviation detection definition. The default value is CALC. This element is optional.

The possible values for this element are:

READ
Users with read-only access to a database can work with deviation detection definitions.

WRITE
Users with read and write access to a database can work with deviation detection definitions.

CALC
Users who can calculate data can work with deviation detection definitions.

serverlog
Specifies information about the OLAP Miner server log. This element and any of its attributes are optional. It has the following attributes:

path
The path for the OLAP Miner server log file. The default value is ARBORPATH where ARBORPATH is the directory where you installed DB2 OLAP Server, and the name of the server log file will be OMServer.log.

max_size
The maximum size of the log in bytes. The default is 1000000 bytes.

verbose
Controls the amount of information that the server writes to its log file. The possible values are HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, or NONE. The default value is LOW, which allows the least amount of log information.

data_dir
The path that designates where the OLAP Miner server stores mining definition files and results files. The default value is ARBORPATH\om_data. You should not change this element after you create deviation detection definitions. This element is optional.

My comment
The configuration file can contain comments that must use the following format:
<!-- My comment -->

where My comment is the comment text.


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