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To modify Tm1 web configuration file
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:48 pm
by nayitian
Hello,
IBM has an online document about customizing TM1 web via modiying the configuration file.
I recalled from a workshop long time ago, the speaker mentioned all the configuration parameters can be stored in a control cube, so instead of modifying the config file, all need to do is to change the value in the cube. I am trying to understand how those parametners in the cube get passed. Thank you very much if you can shed some lights on this.
By the way, my Tm1 version is 10.1
Re: To modify Tm1 web configuration file
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:12 pm
by jim wood
Interesting. I would suggest that the content would be stored within a cube then exported using TI and Ascii output. This however would be very version and IIE (If using 10.1 or lower) specific.
Re: To modify Tm1 web configuration file
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:59 pm
by tomok
If it was indeed a long time ago then we would be talking IIS and I am almost positive that IIS gets it's settings from the web.config file (unless you modify settings inside your ASP.NET code). There would be no way for the web server to dynamically read a TM1 control cube and modify the web site behavior unless the .NET code behind TM1 had that functionality (and I'm almost 100% sure it did/does not). Like Jim mentioned you would have to run a TI process that would take the control cube values and create a new web.config file. How useful would that really be? Possible, but not really useful IMO.
Re: To modify Tm1 web configuration file
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:46 pm
by declanr
I've previously set up a TI in my utility model to create a tm1 config file based on a number of parameters, create all relevant folders and add it as a service... more a play about than anything... did come in handy recently though when I had to migrate about 20 services to a new box and standardise the config files (had to throw in a section to copy the data directory of course) but like I say it was mostly me playing about.
Not sure as to what point there would be in building a cube/TI to control the web config when most companies only have 1 file to update anyway and even the bigger organisations rarely have a large number of web servers (and when they do the only difference tends to be the admin host) changes after hitting production are few and far between.