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Creating a New Property Key

Property keys are defined and provided as part of the CA RCM product, out-of-the-box. At times, you may find it necessary to add a new property key to the CA RCM property file. The Properties Settings utility makes this easy to do.

When you want to create a new property key, you have to enter the key before you click Create New. If you do not, you will receive the following message: cannot create a property with a null/empty key. [GENPRP003]

After you enter the new property key name and click Create New, the Edit Property screen opens.

Save is disabled. The reason is that, for security reasons, when you edit a property key, the change is not saved directly to the properties file. Instead the updated property key value is saved to the CA RCM database.

The CA RCM Portal provides you with two databases to store your update key values:

DB_dynamic_properties

The change is immediate. You do not have to wait for the server to go offline to update the property values.

DB_static_properties

The change will take place the next time that the server is restarted.

To create a new property key

1. In the CA RCM Properties page enter a name of a property key in the text box under Properties.
2. Click Create New.

   The Edit Property screen opens.

3. Enter a Property Value in the text box.
4. Select a database Type from the drop-down list.
5. Click Save. The new property appears in the Properties .