Open topic with navigation

Console options

There are several options that you can set that are specific to the Double-Take Console. To access these console options, select Options from the toolbar.

• Monitoring interval—Specifies how often, in seconds, the console refreshes the monitoring data. The servers will be polled at the specified interval for information to refresh the console.
• Default port for XML web services protocol—Specifies the port that the console will use when sending and receiving data to Double-Take servers. By default, the port is 6325. Changes to the console port will not take effect until the console is restarted.
• Default port for legacy protocol—If you are using an older Double-Take version, you will need to use the legacy protocol port. This applies to Double-Take versions 5.1 or earlier.

• Automatically check for updates—By default, each time the console is started, it will automatically check the Vision Solutions web site to see if there is updated console software available. If there is updated console software available, an Automatic Updates section will appear on the Home page. Click Get the latest update to download and install the updated console software.

  If you want to disable the automatic check for updates, click Change automatic updates or select Options from the toolbar. On the Options page, deselect Automatically check for updates to disable the automatic check.

  You can also manually check for updates by selecting Help, Check for Updates.

  • Update available—If there is an update available, click Get Update. The dialog box will close and your web browser will open to the Vision Solutions web site where you can download and install the update.
  • No update available—If you are using the most recent console software, that will be indicated. Click Close.
  • No connection available—If the console cannot contact the update server of if there is an error, the console will report that information. The console log contains a more detailed explanation of the error. Click Check using Browser if you want to open your browser to check for console software updates. You will need to use your browser if your Internet access is through a proxy server.

• Enable license inventory—This option allows you to use this console to manage the Double-Take licenses assigned to your organization. When this option is enabled, the Manage License Inventory page is also enabled.

  The license inventory feature may not appear in your console if your service provider has restricted access to it.

   

• Default Installation Options—All of the fields under the Default Installation Options section are used by the push installation on the Install page. The values specified here will be the default options used for the push installation. Options you modify when using the push installation will be replaced by these default values each time you use the push installation.

  • Location of 32-bit installation package—Specify the location of the setup file (on the local machine) that will be used to install on 32-bit servers. By default, this is in the \i386 subdirectory where you installed Double-Take Availability, if you performed a server-only or client and server installation from the Double-Take CD. If you performed a client-only installation or installed from a web downloaded, you will need to manually populate this location with a valid directory and make sure the 32-bit installation setup.exe file is in the specified location. The setup file is available on the Double-Take CD in the \setup\dt\i386 directory or from the support web site. If you download the file from the support web site, you will need to manually unzip the file to extract the \setup\dt\i386\setup.exe file.
  • Location of 64-bit installation package—Specify the location of the setup file (on the local machine) that will be used to install on 64-bit servers. By default, this is in the \x64 subdirectory where you installed Double-Take Availability, if you performed a server-only or client and server installation from the Double-Take CD. If you performed a client-only installation or installed from a web downloaded, you will need to manually populate this location with a valid directory and make sure the 64-bit installation setup.exe file is in the specified location. The setup file is available on the Double-Take CD in the \setup\dt\x64 directory or from the support web site. If you download the file from the support web site, you will need to manually unzip the file to extract the \setup\dt\x64\setup.exe file.
  • Location of .NET 3.5 SP1 installation package—If your servers are running Windows 2008 or earlier and do not have Microsoft .NET version 3.5.1, specify the location of the setup file (on the local machine) that will be used to install it. The setup file is available on the Double-Take CD in the \NetFx\v3.5SP1\Full directory or from the Microsoft web site.
  • Temporary folder for installation package—Specify a temporary location (on the server where you are installing Double-Take Availability) where the installation files will be copied and run.
  • Installation folder—Specify the location where you want to install Double-Take Availability on each server.
  • Queue folder—Specify the location where you want to store the Double-Take Availability disk queue on each server.
  • Amount of system memory to use—Specify the maximum amount of memory, in MB, that can be used for Double-Take Availability processing. For complete details on memory usage, see Double-Take Availability queue.
  • Minimum free disk space—This is the minimum amount of disk space in the specified Queue folder that must be available at all times. This amount should be less than the amount of physical disk space minus the disk size specified for Limit disk space for queue.
  • Do not use disk queue—This option will disable disk queuing. When system memory has been exhausted, Double-Take Availability will automatically begin the auto-disconnect process.
  • Unlimited disk queue—Double-Take Availability will use an unlimited amount of disk space in the specified Queue folder for disk queuing, which will allow the queue usage to automatically expand whenever the available disk space expands. When the available disk space has been used, Double-Take Availability will automatically begin the auto-disconnect process.
  • Limit disk space for queue—This option will allow you to specify a fixed amount of disk space, in MB, in the specified Queue folder that can be used for Double-Take Availability disk queuing. When the disk space limit is reached, Double-Take Availability will automatically begin the auto-disconnect process.
  • Install Atom feature on repository servers—This option indicates if the Atom deduplication feature of Double-Take RecoverNow will be installed.