Changing the configuration

Describes how to modify the configuration file.

About this task

To permanently change the configuration in shared memory that controls the tracing, edit the file, save it, and restart the product. On UNIX™ platforms you must also clean up the memory by running the tracing command with the -clean parameter between stopping and restarting the product. Thus, the procedure to change the configuration file is as follows:
UNIX™
  1. Modify the configuration file
  2. Save the configuration file
  3. Stop the product
  4. Run xcli -clean
  5. Restart the product
Windows™
  1. Modify the configuration file
  2. Save the configuration file
  3. Stop the product
  4. Restart the product

You can change much of the configuration in shared memory that controls the tracing by using the xcli command (see xcli command syntax). However, any changes made in this way are not updated in the configuration file, so at the next initialization, unless you have specifically edited the file, the parameters used are those that were in the file last time you restarted the product.