Configuration information - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway - 23.2.4

BAM settings

• BAM Address: Enter the IP address of your Address Manager server.

• BAM Username: Enter the Address Manager username that will be writing information to Address Manager.

  Note: The username entered must have administrative Address Manager API permissions configured.

• BAM Password: Enter the password for the Address Manager user.

  The BlueCat Gateway instance attempts to connect to the Address Manager server and retrieve the Configuration names and View names configured the set Address Manager server.

• Configuration Name or ID: Select the Address Manager configuration that you want to work with.

• View Name or ID: Select the Address Manager view that you want to work with.

Database settings

The Database settings section lets you configure the logging and behaviour of DDDNS's database.

In this section, you can configure the following:

1. Enable Logging Update Records: Specify whether to enable or disable logging update traffic to the Distributed DDNS Data Node database. The default is enabled.

2. Keep History For At Most: Select to enable logging of resource record history. If enabled, also enter the retention period that resource record history logs are kept for. Any records that fall outside of this retention period are removed from the database.

3. Limit Database Size: Select to enable limits to the amount of logging information that is written to the database. If enabled, enter the size limit of logs that are written to the database. If the size of the logs written to the database exceeds the limit defined, record history is removed from the database.

4. Enable Backup Select to enable automatic backups. If enabled, also enter the following information:

   • Schedule: enter the frequency at which backups are automatically performed. The supported frequencies are Hourly, Daily, and Weekly.

   • At: enter the time at which backups are automatically performed.

   • On: enter the day of the week at which backups are automatically performed.

   Note: Automatic backups have the following restrictions:

   • Automatic backups are performed only on the bootstrap node of the Distributed DDNS Data Nodes. Backup data will be available only on the bootstrap node disk.

   • To avoid consumption of disk space, backup archives are restricted to 50. Also, backups will not be performed if the amount of available free space is less than 2 GB, or if the /var directory is at least 95% full.

   For more information on determining the bootstrap node of the Distributed DDNS Data Node cluster, see Restoring database backups.

5. Select Save Backup Remotely to enable or disable saving backup information to a remote server. You can only enable this option when Enable Backup is configured. Backups are saved remotely based on the configured settings in the Enable Backup section. If enabled, enter the following information:

   • Address: enter the IP address of the remote server that stores the backup information.

   • Directory: enter the directory of the remote server that the backup information will be stored to.

   • User: enter the username that will be used to authenticate with the remote server.

   • Password: enter the password that will be used to authenticate with the remote server.

6. Click Purge to manually delete information captured by the Limit Database Size and Keep History For At Most settings.

7. Click Backup History to display a screen that lists all backups that were performed.

   The following image displays an example of the backup history screen.

   
   
   
   Where the columns represent the following:

   • DB Node—displays the IP address of the Data Node that contains the backup file.

   • Directory—displays the directory that contains the backup file in the node container. This is not the directory on the host machine itself.

   • File—displays the name of the backup file.

   • Status—displays the status of the backup.

   • Save to Remote—displays whether the backup file is sent to a remote host.

   • Auto or Manual—displays the type of backup.

   • Time—displays the time that the backup occurred.

   You can select one or more backup files and click Delete to remove them. Deleting the backup file removes the history from the database, including the backup file on the hard disk.

   For more information on database backups, refer to Backing up the database.

BlueCat Scavenging settings

When you're done, click Save.