Configuration Substitution

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Version 9.3 of PROIV introduces the concept of parameter substitution in the Virtual Machine section of the PROIV Dashboard. This allows administrators to enclose environment variables or the OGN* form of other Virtual Machine dashboard items within configuration settings. To use a substitution within another setting enclose the environment variable name or the OGN* string within curly braces preceded with the ‘$’ character.

In the following settings the OGN* form of the Temp Directory is used to define the Print Path and the Windows environment variable HOMEPATH is used to set the PROIV Home directory.

• Print Path will resolve to c:\Temp\PrintPath

• Home Directory will be resolved to the Windows HOMEPATH environment variable

1. The parameters used either as source or destination must be textual (string types). Arrays, Numbers and Booleans are not allowed.

2. Nested or self-referencing of parameters is not supported. If a substitution parameter contains another it will not be resolved in the derived parameter.

3. If a substitute string cannot be resolved then an empty string is used instead.

* “Object Graph Notation” as used in the Virtual Machines’ configuration files.

Configuration Substitution

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