Access the News configuration file

Access the News configuration file

To change News configuration settings.

Check out the News cell-level configuration file:
cd app_server_root/profiles/Dmgr01/bin
./wsadmin.sh -lang jython
execfile("newsAdmin.py")
NewsCellConfig.checkOutConfig("/tmp", "cellName")

To determine cellname:

print AdminControl.getCell()

Edit news-config.xml file and update the following parameters as required.

Parameter Description
databaseCleanup storyLifetimeInDays Interval at which news stories are deleted from the News repository.
dataSynchronization frequencyInHours Interval at which networking data is synchronized between the News repository and the Profiles application.
NewsDataCleanup task Interval at which the databaseCleanup task runs. There is a configuration parameter to enable or disable, however, do NOT disable. If disabled, we run the risk of rapidly reaching the file system storage limit as the database increases in size, and we also degrade data access performance.

The following parameters are also present in news-config.xml, but their default settings must not be changed.

Parameter Description
EmailDigestDelivery A batch job that runs each hour to collect and post the news as daily and weekly emails. This setting must not be changed. Depending on their email notification settings, a daily or weekly email digest is posted to IBM Connections users with the most relevant news. The emails are sent instantly when they are posted as notifications in Connections.
MetricsCollector Update the statistics and metrics displayed for the Home page and News applications. The metrics collector is a batch process that runs every night.
NewsCheckUpdatedPersons Used internally to discover how often a person status changes in the system, for example, when a user is marked as active or inactive.
PersonSpreadTranche A scheduled task that load balances the users in the existing tranches used by the email digest so that users are spread in a uniform way according to their mail domain. We can run this task manually using command...
NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest()

Check the configuration file back in.
For the changes to take effect, check in during the same wsadmin session in which it was checked out.

Parent topic:
Administer the News repository

Related:
Configure database clean-up for the News repository
Synchronize News data with other applications
Reallocate and load balance users according to mail domain

Parameter	Description
databaseCleanup storyLifetimeInDays	Interval at which news stories are deleted from the News repository.
dataSynchronization frequencyInHours	Interval at which networking data is synchronized between the News repository and the Profiles application.
NewsDataCleanup task	Interval at which the databaseCleanup task runs. There is a configuration parameter to enable or disable, however, do NOT disable. If disabled, we run the risk of rapidly reaching the file system storage limit as the database increases in size, and we also degrade data access performance.

Parameter	Description
EmailDigestDelivery	A batch job that runs each hour to collect and post the news as daily and weekly emails. This setting must not be changed. Depending on their email notification settings, a daily or weekly email digest is posted to IBM Connections users with the most relevant news. The emails are sent instantly when they are posted as notifications in Connections.
MetricsCollector	Update the statistics and metrics displayed for the Home page and News applications. The metrics collector is a batch process that runs every night.
NewsCheckUpdatedPersons	Used internally to discover how often a person status changes in the system, for example, when a user is marked as active or inactive.
PersonSpreadTranche	A scheduled task that load balances the users in the existing tranches used by the email digest so that users are spread in a uniform way according to their mail domain. We can run this task manually using command... NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest()