Resolved: OpsConfig.XML File Keeps Resetting in 10.2

[Feldmani]

Hello All,

I am a long-time reader, first time poster on the forums. We have upgraded one of our development environments to Cognos TM1 10.2. I have pretty much everything working, except for whatever reason I seem to be unable to configure the opsconfig.xml file that is located in C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1_64\bin64\opsconsoledata\OpsConfig.xml. I make my edits, save it, and my changes stick up until a certain point. Then when I start the application server, the file reverts back to the default settings.

I am assuming the values must be being cached somewhere, but I am hoping that someone on this forum more familiar can point me in the right direction of where I need to look (or what I may be doing wrong).

Thank you all in advance!

Edit: I found and resolved the issue, figured I would keep the post up in case someone else doesn't read the documentation like me. Apparently the only way to edit the configuration file is to go to host:port/pmhub/pm/admin, expanding configuration and editing it that way. Editing the file itself does not work.

[robin]

Adding a bit more detail.

In 10.2 the XML file is secondary storage to make the data available to Ops Console.

The configuration data is entered through the PM Hub admin page which can be found at http://yourserver/pm/admin
(put admin where opsconsole was in your url).

There is a tree structure starting with configurations, if you open it up there are 2 OpsConsole branches, the one you want is
com.ibm.ba.pm.opsonsole.monitor.tm1.TM1OpsConsoleMonitor.Dictionary

You can edit the data in there, it gets picked up from there every time the app server starts which is why it's been overwriting data written directly into the XML file.

One gotcha when editing the data in the admin page is it's not always clear when an edit will be saved. If you change a value make sure you move off that field to another field before leaving the page.

[Carl Lonsdale]

And thank you for saving me as well.