Managing MC Settings
The MC Settings page allows you to configure properties specific to Management Console. You can:
- Change MC and agent default port assignments.
- Enable and disable username and password auto-complete at MC login. (After disabling, clear your browser's cache.)
- Control the following monitoring settings in MC:
- Enable checks and set alert thresholds for spread retransmit rate. This setting is disabled by default. The recommended alert threshold for spread retransmit rate is 10%.
- Set alert thresholds for free MC disk space checks. The recommended alert threshold is 500 MB.
- Exclude MC queries from activity charts.
- Set refresh intervals for MC charts and pages.
- Upload a new SSL certificate.
- Use LDAP for user authentication.
- Create new MC users and, with their user credentials, map them to an database managed by MC on the Vertica server. See Creating an MC User and Managing MC Users.
- View your version of Vertica or upload a new Vertica binary file.
- Customize the look and feel of MC with themes. See Customizing Look and Feel.
- Configure MC to use an alternative data source to monitor your database. See Monitoring External Data Sources in Management Console.
- Enable MC to send email alerts. See Set Up Email .
- Configure Extended Monitoring, which allows you to monitor more long-term data in MC:
- Set up an external storage database for Extended Monitoring. See Managing the Storage Database.
- Enable or disable Extended Monitoring on your databases. See Managing Extended Monitoring on a Database.
Modifying Database-Specific Settings
To inspect or modify settings related to a database managed by MC, go to the Existing Infrastructure page. On this page, select a running database to see its Overview page. From the bottom of the Overview page, click the Settings tab to make modifications to database-specific settings.