How do I set the NFM-P system preferences?

CAUTION

Service Disruption

A system preference setting typically applies globally to an NFM-P system; changing a system preference setting may adversely affect NFM-P operation.

Contact technical support before you attempt to change a System Preferences setting.

Note: Changing a system preference requires a scope of command role with administrator privileges.

Steps

Choose Administration→System preferences from the NFM-P main menu. The System Preferences form opens.

The following table lists and describes, by tab, the functions on the System Preferences form, and where to find additional information, if applicable. The table lists the tabs in sequential order of display.

Note: The descriptions in the table are general, and not an exhaustive list of the available settings. Specific System Preferences requirements and settings are described in NFM-P procedures, as required.

Table 21-3: NFM-P system preferences

Tab and available settings	See
General
GUI form display — tabs shown or hidden by default, whether to allow customization	NSP NFM-P User Guide
CSV encoding for file export operations
NE display threshold for equipment groups in navigation tree — maximum NEs displayed in expanded equipment group Equipment groups can contain up to 2000 NEs. The GUI navigation tree display a maximum of 500 NEs per group. You can set the NE display threshold for Equipment Group parameter to accomplish any of the following: To display all the NEs in equipment groups that contain no more than 500 NEs, set the parameter to 500. To display a small number of NEs per equipment group, set the parameter to a low value. The minimum setting is 2. You can use the NE list form to access and manage the NEs in the group, and you can show additional NEs in the tree if required. See “To manage NEs in equipment groups on the navigation tree”in the NSP NFM-P User Guide. To allow the display of enough NEs to meet your typical requirements while also allowing additional NEs to show in the tree if necessary, set the parameter to a value in the middle of the range. This is useful if you have more than 500 NEs in a group. For example, if the parameter is set to 300, then 300 of the NEs in the group are displayed in the tree. You can select and display up to 200 additional NEs in that group before the limit of 500 is reached. Select the additional NEs to show in the tree from the NE list form for the group; see “To manage NEs in equipment groups on the navigation tree” in the NSP NFM-P User Guide. You must close and re-open the NFM-P client for changes to the NE display threshold for Equipment Group parameter to take effect. The change is propagated to all GUI clients during the next client startup.
Services
Default behavior for the following service functions: Composite services: Allow or suppress the auto discovery of Spoke, CCAG, SCP, or RVPLS connectors. Enable or disable the use of VRF Route Target connections. Specify whether service alarms are aggregated in composite services. Service bandwidth management: Allow or suppress multi-segment tunnel selection. Enable or disable Service Bandwidth Management (CAC). Specify the maximum of sites that can be moved from one service to another when reducing the overall size of a particular service; the default is 25. Specify the default priority of a service when creating a service; the default is set to Low. Allow or suppress VPRN SNMP Community string warnings and alarms. Allow or suppress the automatic removal of an empty service. Enable or disable the use of multi-segment tunnel selection functionality. Specify if a site name and description are to be added when a service is created. Allow or suppress Route Target Reservation alarms. Enable or disable if a service or service site can be deleted if the service or service site has any child objects such as SAPs, SDP bindings, policies, or any other objects related to the service CLI hierarchy. When enabled, you must first delete all child objects before the service or service site can be deleted. This preference only applies to services or service site associated with SROS-based devices. Specify if a Service Name is to be added to the Site Name when sites are added to a service.	NSP NFM-P User Guide
TCA
Allows you to configure the default behavior associated with configuring TCA policies such as specifying the maximum TCA limit, the TCA reset synchronization time or reset interval, and the default TCA severity.	NSP NFM-P User Guide
Statistics
Allows you to configure the default behavior associated when exporting statistics files, such as specifying the log file retention and rollover times.	NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide
Allows you to enable or disable the database storage of statistics; when database storage is disabled for a statistics type, the statistics data is retained only temporarily on a main or auxiliary server, and must be retrieved using the registerLogToFile XML API method	NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide
The Accumulate time over suspect intervals parameter specifies how to manage the Periodic Time of the first valid statistics record after a suspect collection of the record. When the parameter is enabled, the Periodic Time of a record increases by the collection interval length after each consecutive suspect collection. Consequently, the periodic data values in the first valid record are averaged over a greater time span to yield a more realistic value.	NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide
Allows you to configure the number of JMS client connection checks that are performed when exporting statistics files before a registerLogToFile request is automatically de-registered.	NSP NFM-P XML API Developer Guide
Allows you to specify whether the accounting policy ID is included in the header of each accounting file. The function enables an OSS to use XML API filters based on the policy ID, if required.	NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide NSP NFM-P XML API Developer Guide
Bin Alarm
Allows you to configure the maximum Bin Alarm limit, reset synchronization time, reset interval, and alarm severity.	NSP NFM-P User Guide
Test Manager
Allows you to configure the default retention time for dB test results and target test results and log files performed with the Service Test Manager and which test results are stored.	NSP NFM-P User Guide
User Activity
Allows you to configure how much user activity log information the NFM-P stores before purging information, and how long to retain the information.	What is user activity logging?
OLC
Allows you to configure the default behavior associated with OLC state of an object that is undergoing commissioning or maintenance. You can configure the following: In the Automatic OLC State Change panel, enable or disable the Enable Automatic OLC State change parameter to indicate whether the OLC state is automatically set to maintenance when the following actions occur: When the Administrative state is down. If the status of the parent object is set to administratively down. If the affecting object administrative state is down. If the Enable Automatic OLC State change parameter is enabled, a Shut Down action sets the object OLC state to Maintenance and a Turn Up action sets the object OLC state to In Service. This state change is also applied to any child objects, unless the child object OLC state is locked in maintenance mode. In the OLC Scheduling panel, for scheduled objects that are set to maintenance mode, enable the Create Info Alarm Prior to OLC Revert, if an info alarm is to be raised prior to an OLC revert and the lead time of the alarm notification before reverting. In the OLC Scheduling panel, you can customize the three revert times that appear for the Revert OLC State parameter in the in the OLC panel on service and network object properties forms.	How do I schedule an OLC state change?
Policies
Allows you to display or hide the policy names on policy configuration forms for the following: Access ingress and access egress policies ACL IP, ACL IPv6, and ACL MAC policy filters QoS network policies	NSP NFM-P User Guide
Allow you to set a restriction in the distribution mode for certain types of local policies that will permit local editing only. Additionally, the following applies to this system preference configuration: Policy types supported by this system preference include Access Ingress, Access Egress, Network QoS, ACL MAC, ACL IPv4, and ACL IPv6. When creating any of these policies, if you set the Scope parameter to exclusive, the NFM-P will set the distribution mode to local edit. The NFM-P will not allow policies with the Scope parameter set to exclusive to be assigned or used more than once. If you attempt to set the Policy Distribution Mode to Sync With Global while the Scope attribute is configured as exclusive, an error message will result.
Allow you to specify that for policy changes made using CLI, to switch the distribution mode for certain types of local policies to Local Edit Only, as opposed to the default Sync with Global mode.
Allows you to configure the automatic distribution of a global policy to applicable NEs once the policy is released.
Allows you to configure the maximum number of scheduled audit results stored for a local policy.
Allows you to enable or disable if all zones are re-synchronized from the node as local edit only. If you disable the Discover Security Zone in Local Edit Only parameter, all zones re-synchronized from the node are set to Sync With Global. The Discover Security Zone in Local Edit Only parameter is only supported on the 7705 SAR-8 with CSMv2, 7705 SAR-8v2 with CSMv2, 7705 SAR-18, 7705 SAR-H, 7705 SAR-Hc, and 7705 SAR-Wx variants, Release 6.1 R1 or later.
Custom NE Properties
Allows you to configure if custom property labels and values are used to identify an NE, for example, the location and site name that differs from the actual NE site name. These properties cannot be configured on the NE. Additionally, the following applies to this system preference configuration: If custom property labels are not configured, the default labels are used. NE custom properties support the extended character set including multi-byte characters. Custom property labels and values are displayed in the following locations: NE Properties form NE List form	—
ESM
Allows you to configure the default behavior associated with the on-demand retrieval of residential subscriber-related information from NEs such as: The tracked subscriber retrieval timeout interval The subscriber host retrieval timeout interval The maximum number of residential subscriber instances returned via XML API If managed route information is to be collected If QoS override information is to be collected If SLAAC host addresses are to be collected If access loop encapsulations are to be collected If BGP peer information is to be collected	NSP NFM-P User Guide
Multi Vendor
Allows you to configure the Enforce SysObjectId Validation on Driver Module parameter. The parameter specifies whether a driver replacement will be blocked if the SysObjectIds do not match.	NSP NFM-P User Guide
MPR
Allows or denies user-access to configure Wavence devices using a Local Craft Terminal (LCT). This prevents multi-write access sessions on Wavence devices. You can also enable or disable if the NFM-P receives LAC alarms from the nodes.	NSP NFM-P Wavence User Guide
Application Assurance
Allows you to configure the default behavior for the following NFM-P AA functions: The database persisted transit IP address retrieval time interval The database persisted transit prefix address retrieval time interval The maximum number of database transit subscribers returned via XML API	NSP NFM-P User Guide
Network Group Encryption
Allows you to set the NGE version	NSP NFM-P User Guide

Configure the required parameters. Information about system preferences parameters is available from the Parameter Search Tool in the NSP Network Developer Portal.

As required, click on the appropriate tab to configure another system preference.

Click OK to save your changes and close the form.

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