System configuration

Indexing configuration

The indexing configuration contains the parameters that relate to search and indexing.

  • Where Vidispine can reach Solr or ZooKeeper.
  • When to commit or soft commit.
  • The Solr query request parameters.
  • The default field settings.

This configuration replaces the configuration properties listed under Search and indexing.

Example

Full text indexing could be disabled for all fields, unless explicitly specified for a field, using:

<IndexingConfigurationDocument xmlns="http://xml.vidispine.com/schema/vidispine">
  <solrPath>http://localhost:8088/solr</solrPath>
  <fieldDefault>
    <name>*</name>
    <fullText>false</fullText>
  </fieldDefault>
</IndexingConfigurationDocument>

Metrics configuration

See StatsD on how to configure how metrics are sent to StatsD. The configuration resource is described at Metrics settings.

FTP pool configuration

New in version 4.2.4.

By default jobs that need to read or write to an FTP server will establish, use and end separate connections to the server. By configuring a FTP connection pool you can change so that the jobs share and reuse FTP connections. This can reduce the time it takes to transfer files over high latency connections.

For example, to create a connection pool with the default settings:

PUT /configuration/ftp-pool
Content-Type: application/xml

<FtpPoolConfigurationDocument xmlns="http://xml.vidispine.com/schema/vidispine">
  <pool/>
<FtpPoolConfigurationDocument/>

If no pool is specified then pooling will be disabled. Unless overridden, the pool will be unbounded, and connections will expire after 1 minute. That is, the above configuration is identical to:

PUT /configuration/ftp-pool
Content-Type: application/xml

<FtpPoolConfigurationDocument xmlns="http://xml.vidispine.com/schema/vidispine">
  <pool>
    <minSize>0</minSize>
    <maxSize>-1</maxSize>
    <evictionInterval>30000</evictionInterval>
    <minIdleTime>60000</minIdleTime>
  </pool>
<FtpPoolConfigurationDocument/>

The FTP pool configuration resource is described at FTP pool configuration.

Database purging

Vidispine supports mechanisms for purging old information in database tables. Especially three tables can grow quite large without purging enabled.

Change-log table

New in version 4.2.4.

The change-log table holds information about data that should be sent to other sites. If multi-site is disabled (disableSiteCrunching), this table grows forever.

To enable purging of the table, two configuration properties are used: changeLogPurgingTime and changeLogForcePurgingTime. The first one controls deletion of entries that have been processed, the other one controls deletion of entries regardless of state.

Sensible values are 43200 and 86400, corresponding to one and two months, respectively.

Audit trail table

New in version 4.2.4.

The audit trail table contains all API requests, see Audit trails.

To enable purging of the table, two configuration properties are used: auditTrailPurgingTime and auditTrailPurgingDirectory. Both must be set in order for purging to take place.

When purging is enabled, entries that are older than auditTrailPurgingTime will be removed and put in a file inside the auditTrailPurgingDirectory folder.

A sensible value is 43200 or higher, corresponding to one month.

Job table

New in version 4.3.

To enable purging of the table, two configuration properties are used: jobPurgingTime and jobPurgingDirectory. Both must be set in order for purging to take place.

When purging is enabled, entries that are older than jobPurgingTime will be removed and put in a file inside the jobPurgingDirectory folder.

Configuration properties

Configuration properties are used in Vidispine to control system-wide parameters.

General

apiUri

URI to Application Server. Used by transcoder(s), so need to be proper host if transcoder(s) run on another machine.

Mandatory:Yes
Example:http://localhost:8080/API/
apiNoauthUri

URI to Application Server, to use to access the no-auth API. Used by transcoder(s), so need to be proper host if transcoder(s) run on another machine.

Example:http://localhost:8080
clusterName

Optional alphanumerical identifier for the Vidispine installation/cluster. Must be set (to a unique identifier) if multiple Vidispine installations are to share a common set of transcoders.

Example:ABPRD, ABDEV, BCPRD
Since:4.4
disableSiteCrunching

Do not build site replication packages. Recommended to be set to true for systems not running site replication.

Default:true since 4.2.6. Previous versions: false
Since:4.0.4
validatexml

Enable schema validation of the incoming and outgoing xml document.

Default:false
Since:4.2.1
slaveLicenseProxy

Use a proxy for Connection to Vidispine master license service. Format is

  • http://IP:port/ or
  • socks://IP:port/

Proxy authentication is not supported.

Default:none
Since:4.2.5

Search and indexing

Deprecated since version 4.2: The Solr and ZooKeeper properties are deprecated. Use Indexing configuration instead.

solrPath

URI ( not path! ) to Solr.

Mandatory:Yes (No for SolrCloud)
Example:http://localhost:8081/solr/
zkHost

For SolrCloud: A comma separated list of host:port pairs to the servers in the ZooKeeper ensemble.

Mandatory:No (Yes for SolrCloud)
Example:localhost:3000,example.com:3001
Since:4.1
solrCollection

For SolrCloud: The collection in Solr to be used by Vidispine.

Mandatory:No (Yes for SolrCloud)
Example:collection1
Since:4.1
solrQueryTimeout

The request timeout in milliseconds to use when querying Solr.

Default:60000
Since:4.1.1
solrPingAttempts

The number of times to ping a Solr node before aborting an active request.

Default:5
Since:4.1.1
solrPingTimeout

The request timeout in milliseconds to use when checking if a Solr node. is alive

Default:5000
Since:4.1.1
solrCommitInterval

The interval (in milliseconds) of Vidispine sending hard commit to Solr.

Default:10000
solrSoftCommitInterval

The interval (in milliseconds) of Vidispine sending soft commit to Solr.

Default:-1 (disable)
solrAutoSoftCommit

If Vidispine should sending soft commit to Solr automatically.

Default:true
solrUpdateQueueSize

Number of documents Vidispine will send in batch to Solr.

Default:100
indexFieldGroups

If metadata field groups should be indexed in Solr. Setting this to false can reduce the load and the size of the index if items have a large number of groups in the metadata, but will mean that no results will be available when searching for field groups.

Default:true
indexCollectionItemOrder

If the order of an item in a collection should be indexed in Solr. Settings this to false can greatly reduce the number of fields created in Solr and improve performance on systems with a lot of collections. This affects collection item retrieval. See also Ordering collections.

Recommended to be set to false for applications not relying on that feature. Requires a clean Solr index and a full re-index to take effect.

Changed in version 4.4: This is now disabled by default.

Default:false
Since:4.2.8
indexTimespans

If time coded metadata should be indexed in Solr. Setting this to false can reduce the load and the size of the index if items/collections have a large number of timespans in the metadata, but will mean that no time coded metadata can be found.

Default:true
Since:4.2.13
maxSearchResults

Maximum number of search results allowed to be returned (see Search items).

Default:100
legacyTransientFieldTypes

This setting controls the datatype of the transient metadata fields. If true then all transient fields will be of type string. If false the *_size and *_count fields will be of type integer, and the rest will have type string.

Default:true

Metadata

disableMetadataSchema

If a metadata schema has been defined (see Metadata schema), allows metadata that does not comply to the schema.

Default:false

Authentication

passwordHashAlgorithm

The hash algorithm used to hash all user passwords. Note that changing this will make it impossible to authenticate with any existing user.

Default:MD5
ldapAuthentication

If set to true, LDAP authenticated will be enabled.

Default:false
userTokenMaxInterval

Maximum token time for token created by regular user, in seconds.

Default:60
Since:4.2.2
userTokenDefaultInterval

Default token expiration time, in seconds.

Default:60
Since:4.2.2
userTokenRefreshInterval

Minimum time between token refreshments, in seconds.

Default:10
Since:4.2.2

Jobs and imports

concurrentJobs

Number of jobs that are allowed to be started.

Default:3
jobRetryCount

Number of retries for a job step before job continues with next step.

Default:5
jobExclusiveStepMaxWait

The maximum number of seconds that a job step will wait before executing if there’s a job step running from another job for the same item or file. This exists to reduce the number of optimistic locking exceptions for job steps that are known to conflict.

Only applies to steps with the exclusive flag (0x0100000) set.

Default:1
Since:4.2.11
defaultIngestStorage

The default destination storage for imports and transcodes. Note that storages selected by storage rules will take priority over this.

Example:VX-1
parseFileMetadata

If set to true, file metadata will be metadata parsed and inserted as Item metadata. Supported formats for this type of metadata include Office formats and PDF files.

Default:false
parseXMP

If set to true, XMP metadata will be parsed and inserted as Item metadata.

Default:false
xmpIgnoreElements

Contains comma-separated list of elements that are not read when parsing XMP data.

Default:DocumentAncestors,Pantry,History
Since:4.0.10
simpleImageProcessor

If false, use ImageMagick (must be installed, see Using ImageMagick for image handling). Otherwise, use built-in image handling.

Default:true
disableThumbnailGeneration

Will disable thumbnail generation by default. Can be overridden on a per job basis.

Default:false
Since:4.0.3
alwaysGenerateThumbnails

When true, thumbnails will be generated on import even if no transcoding takes place.

Default:false
Since:4.0.3
mediaCheckInterval

The retry interval of media check (seconds).

Default:3
Since:4.1

Storage and file

keepMissingFiles

If set to false then missing files that do not belong to any items will be removed from the database instead of being marked as lost.

Can be overridden on a per storage basis using the keepMissingFiles storage metadata property.

Default:false
Since:4.1
keepEmptyDirectories

Do not delete empty parent directories when deleting the last file in a directory, see Parent directory management.

Can be overridden on a per storage basis using the keepEmptyDirectories storage metadata property.

Default:false
Since:4.2.5
fileHashAlgorithm

Hashing algorithm used. If changed, the c_hash column of the t_file table should probably be set to NULL.

Example:SHA-1
enableTranscoderHashing

Off-load file hash calculation available transcoder.

Default:false
Since:4.2.4
fileTempKeyDuration

Number of minutes a no-auth URI is valid (Auto method types).

Example:10
useS3Proxy

When true, Vidispine will create S3 pre-signed URLs for reading during job.

Example:false
Since:4.1
s3ProxyValidTime

The validate time (in minutes) of S3 pre-signed URL.

Example:60
Since:4.1
s3ConcurrentParts

The number of threads used for each S3 file upload.

Default:1
s3PartSize

The S3 chunk/part size. Note that multipart uploads are always performed regardless of file size.

Default:5242880
s3ConnectionTimeout

The timeout (in milliseconds) when establishing a connection to S3.

Default:50000
s3SocketTimeout

The timeout (in milliseconds) when reading from a connection to S3.

Default:50000
s3MaxErrorRetry

The maximum number of times to retry a failed S3 request.

Default:3
useAzureProxy

When true, Vidispine will create AZURE-SAS URLs for reading during job.

Example:false
Since:4.1
azureSasValidTime

Specifies for how many minutes an AZURE-SAS URI will be valid. See Get status of file in storage.

Example:60
Since:4.0.1
stornextFileMetadata

Specifies which fields that should be stored on the Vidispine file entity from StorNext metadata. See StorNext Metadata.

Default:location,class,existingCopies,targetCopies
Since:4.2.3
useSegmentFiles

If true, files generated by the transcoder on storages that do not support partial modification are written as segment files on the storage, instead of local files on the application server. See Temporary storages for transcoder output.

Default:false
Since:4.2.3

Archival

trustArchivedFiles

A file needs to have a replica (another file with the same hash) before it can be removed by the storage rules.

If set to true, then archived files will be treated as valid replicas.

Default:false

File system

Tip

Since 4.1.1, several of the stat system calls that was made by the JRE has been migrated into call in the JNI code. This can be enabled using the localFSTimeData option. On systems where local file systems are sensitive to stat loads, it is recommended to enable this option, and possibly the statsPerSecond option.

fileHierarchy

See Using a tree structure for files.

Example:0
thumbnailHierarchy

See Using a tree structure for thumbnails.

Example:0

Warning

Changing this property will cause old thumbnails to be lost. If you need to change the value on a system in production, please contact Vidispine.

statsPerSecond

Limit the total number of stats done on local file system. See also per-storage metadata ( Storages).

Since:4.1.1
localFSTimeData

Use JNI methods for retrieving file modification time. See below.

Default:false
firstLastModifiedAsCreationTime

Use the first reading of modification time as the creation time. Can be used on file systems which do not have the notion of creation time.

Default:false
disableATime

Do not record atime. Used in conjunction with localFSTimeData.

Default:false
Since:4.2.5

Transfers

signiantManagerHost

Hostname of Signiant manager. See Signiant Integration

signiantManagerUser

Username for Signiant manager. See Signiant Integration

signiantManagerPassword

Password for Signiant manager. See Signiant Integration

enableTranscoderTransfer

Off-load file-to-file transfers of non-growing files to available transcoder.

Default:false
Since:4.2.4

Library

libraryUpdateInterval

Default library update interval in the system (seconds).

Default:60
Since:4.1
libraryExpireTime

Default library expire time in the system (seconds).

Default:86400
Since:4.1
useLucene

If Lucene should be used directly when updating auto-refreshing libraries. This is faster than using Solr when there are a large amount of auto-refreshing libraries, but only works with the default Solr configuration that is shipped with Vidispine.

Default:false
Since:4.0

Growing files

fileGrowingTimeout

The max time a file can keep growing (seconds).

Default:36000
Since:4.1
fileNotGrowingTimeout

A file is considered as not growing if it has not been changed during this period (seconds).

Default:600
Since:4.1

Services

itemDeleteInterval

The running interval (seconds) of ItemDeleteCruncher during the “idle” period (no item to delete).

Default:60
Since:4.1
itemDeleteIntervalShort

The running interval (seconds) of ItemDeleteCruncher during the “busy” period (there are items to be deleted).

Default:5
Since:4.1
itemDeleteExecutionTime

Max running time (seconds) of ItemDeleteCruncher thread, after that it goes to sleep.

Default:5
Since:4.1
fileHashExecutionTime

Max running time (seconds) of a file hashing thread, after that it goes to sleep.

Default:10
Since:4.1

Broker

compressDocumentMessages

If JMS messages containing XML should be compressed or not. If true then the JMS_SUN_COMPRESS property will be set on JMS messages so that compression/decompression is performed by the OpenMQ client.

Works only with OpenMQ.

Since:4.2.2
Default:true

Database management

auditTrailPurgingTime

Remove all audit trail entries older than the specified time (in minutes) and put them in XML format in files inside the directory described by auditTrailPurgingDirectory. See Audit trail table.

Since:4.2.4
Default:not set
auditTrailPurgingDirectory
Since:4.2.4
Default:not set
changeLogPurgingTime

Remove all processed change-log entries older than the specified time (in minutes). See Change-log table.

Since:4.2.4
Default:not set
changeLogForcePurgingTime

Remove all change-log entries (processed or unprocessed) older than the specified time (in minutes).

Since:4.2.4
Default:not set
jobPurgingTime

Remove all job entries older than the specified time (in minutes) and put them in XML format in files inside the directory described by jobPurgingDirectory. See Job table.

Since:4.3
Default:not set
jobPurgingDirectory
Since:4.3
Default:not set
disableSequenceChecker
Since:4.6.1
Default:false

On start-up, Vidispine checks the sequences for all tables, which can be a lengthy process. On a database which is known to be in a consistent state, setting disableSequenceChecker to true will cause this step to be skipped.

Transcoding

maxTranscoderUnavailableTime

When a transcoding job has started, and transcoder connection becomes available, wait for this time (seconds) for connection to be restored until job fails.

Since:4.4.1
Default:60 seconds
bulkyMetadataKeysToIgnore

Comma-separated list of bulky metadata keys to ignore from analysis results, e.g. crop,

Since:4.4.1
Default:(none)
transcoderNonblockingStatusInterval

How frequently the transcode progress of a job will be updated, in milliseconds. A lower number may give a better user experience, but also a higher number of writes to the database.

Since:4.4.1
Default:5000

Vidispine Server Agent

syncVxaFileChanges

This determines whether items created from the VSA or VDA are re-created when the corresponding original file is changed. If the original file is deleted, the item would be removed.

Since:4.6
Default:false
syncVxaDeletes

Similar to syncVxaFileChanges but this one only affects file deletions. When the original file on an agent storage is removed, the corresponding item in Vidispine would also be deleted.

Since:4.6
Default:true

System properties

System properties are set as argument to the JVM. In GlassFish, this is done in the admin console:

Configuration ‣ server-config ‣ JVM Settings ‣ JVM Options ‣ Add JVM Option

The following properties are used in Vidispine:

com.vidispine.site

The site id prefix for the current site.

Default:VX
com.vidispine.license.dir

The directory containing the Vidispine license or slave license file.

Default:${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}
Since:4.3
com.vidispine.license.tmpdir

The directory where temporary license files may be stored.

Default:${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}
Since:4.3
com.vidispine.credentials.dir

The directory containing credentials files such as the AwsCredentials.properties file used with Amazon S3 and Glacier.

Default:${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}
Since:4.3
com.vidispine.log.dir

The directory containing the server log files.

Default:${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/logs
Since:4.3
vidispine.identifier.format

If full, output Long identifiers.

Default:Normal, short identifiers.