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Model: data/Settings

Settings

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For users that have access to the data/Settings model or view/DataSettings, the global levels of logging can be managed.

This level will affect the Log block of messages at the bottom of a selected transaction on the Transaction interface and does not for example affect the transaction or sub transaction Action and Detail information.

Log levels are cumulative, in other words, more detailed levels include all details from less detailed levels. The levels includes messages and have severity values as follows:

Level Description Severity
Disabled disables all transaction log messages 999
Error only displays error messages 40
Warning also adds warning messages to above 30
Info also adds informational messages to above 20
Verbose also adds messages used for diagnostic purposes to above 15
Debug also adds advanced diagnostic messages - for future use 10

For details, refer to the Create a Custom Data Sync topic in the Core Feature Guide.

File Extensions

For users with system administrator privileges to the data/Settings model, the valid file extensions can be managed.

By default, the following file extensions are in the Global instance of this model and are valid. This means that files with this extension can be uploaded to VOSS-4-UC:

File extensions can be added or removed by this administrator. Files that do not have an extension that corresponds with an instance in this model, cannot be loaded or imported. An error message will display on the user interface to indicate that the file does not have a valid file extension.

Disable Device Logging

For users that have access to the data/Settings model, device logging can be managed.

If the Disable Device Logging check box is enabled, Unified CM AXL (and other external calls) requests and responses are not written to the transaction log. Generic driver requests, responses, template evaluations and macro evaluations are also not written to the transaction log.

These details will then not be shown for the relevant transactions under Administration Tools > Transaction Log.

Activate Phone Status Service

System administrators with access to data/Settings can see the Activate Phone Status Service check box that is enabled by default. This indicates that the real-time information (RIS) data collector service is enabled and is polling the Unified CM to obtain the latest phone registration status information for phone instances stored in the VOSS-4-UC database. The polling default interval is: 43200 seconds (12 hours).

For details, refer to the Metrics Collection topic in the Advanced Configuration Guide.

However, When viewing a list of phones, the status action can be carried out by an administrator who has been assigned a role that has an access profile to enable this action. By default, an administrator above provider level can carry out this task from the Role Management > Access Profiles menu - in this case, for relation/SubscriberPhone.

Carrying out this operation fetches the Unified CM phone IP address and status directly from the Unified CM and displays the data on the Phones list view Registration Status and IP Address columns, updating any existing data shown.

Important

Since the result of the status action is in real time, the current status of the list requires that the action carried out in order to see the latest values.

There is no caching of data resulting from this action. If any values show in the columns before carrying out this action, these would not be current, but are the cached values from the RIS data collector if it is enabled.

When carrying out the status action, the data in the Registration Status and IP Address columns can only be viewed.:

Note

When clearing or enabling the check box on data/Settings, log in on the platform command line interface (CLI) and restart the service:

$ cluster run application app start voss-risapi_collector

Phone Status Service in the Logs

When clearing this setting and then restarting the (RIS) data collector service, an app.log entry will show: "message":"RIS API service disabled".

Refer to the Platform Guide for commands to inspect log files.

Example log entry below (line breaks added):

2020-03-26T20:06:00.346577+00:00 VOSS-UN-2 deviceapi.background.risapi INFO
 {"process_id":24,
  "hostname":"VOSS-UN-2-voss-risapi-collector",
  "name":"deviceapi.background.risapi",
  "level":"INFO",
  "utc_iso_timestamp":"2020-03-26T22:06:00.346268",
  "request_uuid":null,
  "user_hierarchy":null,
  "user":null,
  "message":"RIS API service disabled",
  "line":330,
  "parent_process_id":1
 }

Additional Role Access Profile Validation

For users with system administrator privileges to the data/Settings model, a setting called Additional Role Access Profile Validation is available as a check box to manage the available roles when an administrator creates Access Profiles.

By default, the Additional Role Access Profile Validation is disabled.

Refer to the macro topic Filter Role Functions for details on the use of the fn.filter_roles_by_user_access_profile function.

File Upload Limitations

By default, the following file limitations apply:

For users with permissions to the Global instance of the data/Settings datamodel, the upload file size and its time-to-live on the database can be configured.

Files are uploaded to the system database during such activities as:

The time-to-live value applies to uploaded files that have not been used, in other words, imported or processed. By default, a check is done every 24 hours for such files, after which time they are removed.

Time-To-Live for Uploaded Files

For users with system administrator privileges to the data/Settings model, the time-to-live for uploaded files can be managed.

Note

Files that are uploaded from file management menus on the user interface and listed as instances of data/File are not affected.

Uploaded Bulk Load files and imported JSON files are affected, however:

Data Sync Blacklist

Administrators with permissions to access the Global instance of the settings in the data/Settings model, can create a list of device attributes that will not trigger any update workflows that may have been defined to execute during the data sync. These attributes are here called Data Sync Blacklist attributes and are excluded from data sync considerations.

The reason for this list of attributes is that while data sync operations can have a performance impact, some data sync attribute changes do not require data sync workflows to be carried out.

Note however that the local device cache will still be updated with the updated attribute data. No update workflows will be run, though. The transaction logs will indicate the updated device cache, but the transactions for these attributes instances will show as:

"Device changes on blacklisted attributes only. Updating cache, skipping workflows."

Note

After release 20.1.1 or applying patch EKB-4362-19.2.1_patch, the previously blacklisted LDAP attributes are no longer imported during LDAP syncronization:

For device/ldap/user:

A number of blacklisted attributes have been added by default:

Blacklisted ``device/ldap/user``

Blacklisted ``device/cucm/User``

Blacklisted ``device/cucm/Phone``

Blacklisted ``device/ldap/userProxy``

Model Details: data/Settings

Title Description Details
Name
  • Field Name: name
  • Type: String
Transaction Log Level
  • Field Name: transaction_log_level
  • Type: Integer
  • Choices: ["Debug", "Verbose", "Info", "Warning", "Error", "Disabled"]
Supported File Extensions List of supported file extensions for upload
  • Field Name: supported_file_extensions.[n]
  • Type: Array
Disable Device Logging Turn off detailed logging of device APIs
  • Field Name: disable_device_logging
  • Type: Boolean
Activate Phone Status Service Activate service to periodically fetch Call Manager phone status
  • Field Name: activate_phone_status_service
  • Type: Boolean
Additional Role Access Profile Validation Enable additional role access profile validation
  • Field Name: additional_role_access_profile_validation
  • Type: Boolean
Maximum Upload File Size Maximum file size (in bytes) of an upload file. Default size is 209715200 bytes (200 megabytes). Default: 209715200
  • Field Name: maximum_upload_file_size
  • Type: Integer
  • Default: 209715200
Time-To-Live for Uploaded Files Limits the lifespan (in hours) of an uploaded file in the database. Default value is 24 hours. Default: 24
  • Field Name: upload_files_ttl
  • Type: Integer
  • Minimum: 1
  • Default: 24
Data Sync Blacklist Blacklisted attributes for data sync.
  • Field Name: data_sync_blacklist.[n]
  • Type: Array
Model Type Model type whose attributes should be blacklisted.
  • Field Name: data_sync_blacklist.[n].model_type
  • Type: String
  • Format: uri
Blacklist Attributes Blacklist attributes of model type.
  • Field Name: blacklist_attributes.[n]
  • Type: Array