FMAudit Central's Server Configuration page is accessible from the Central Home > Administration > Server Administration > Server Configuration menu.

Three major configuration areas are available, as follows:

General

This section contains five subsections, grouped by their meaning and influence on Central's proper functionality, as follows:

Web Server

Central URL is a mandatory field and represents the Central External Url that Customers used to connect to Central.

Central Keep-Alive URL field is used internally by the web application to make sure that IIS will not pause the application pool.

Email Server

After filling out the email settings, click the Test button to verify them.  The email templates will use this information when sending out emails from FMAudit Central.

To configure email settings for FMAudit Central, fill out the minimum fields required:

SMTP Server

SMTP Port

Email Address setup for current logged in contact

Place a check mark in the Enabled box, and click on the Update button to apply the changes.

The Default SMTP Virtual Server must be running in order to send email.  This is available from the Windows Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services (IIS) -> Default SMTP Virtual Server node.

Note that Adaptive Service Management (ASM) Module will not work if the Email Server is not properly configured or not Enabled.

Regional Settings

SBS Regional Settings controls which device capabilities information is exchanged with FMAudit's Side-by-Side (SBS) database. The information may vary from one region to another.

Voltage Settings controls what OEMPart# information is exchanged with FMAudit's Side-by-Side (SBS) database.

Currency Settings the currency uses culture specific Regional Settings to represent currency, dates, numbers. This setting affect directly the result of the reports, e.g. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Functionality

Mark New Devices as Managed tells the system to set the Managed flag for all device that are newly created during syncs or manually imported.

Enable Extended Meter Validations During Imports enables additional meter validations that compare with previous meter reads to compensate for any incorrect meter reading resulted from timeouts or engine updates.

Attempt Automatic Adjustment of Improper Engine Timeouts Automatically attempt to detect and adjust the accounts settings engine timeouts to avoid erroneous values resulted because of timeouts.

Enable Global OnSite Sync Frequency Limitations enables the import frequency limitations to allow Central control of how often each OnSite is allowed send data to Central.

Limit Historical Data Task Sync Frequency how often Central considers the Meter Reads OnSite data.

Limit Status Data Task Sync Frequency how often Central considers the Supplies Status OnSite data.

Note that data sent between the intervals that are accepted for each account will be discarded by Central! This option should be used whenever One want to reduce the size of the database, in cases when OnSite sends data to Central too often.

Allow Supplies Prices Management for All Account Types allows the import of customized supplies prices for all accounts in Central.

Enable Historical Supplies Coverage Background Calculation controls the ability of Central to calculate Historical Coverage based on the supplies historical information, for those devices that are unable to report coverage but able to report correct supplies levels.

Note that Historical Supplies Coverage Calculation may have an important Impact on the Server's Performance! If you or your customers do not use Coverage for Billing purposes, we advice that you make sure that you SQL Server & Central Server HW is powerful enough to sustain heavy processing algorithms implemented by this feature.

Logging

Enable Log Rotation controls how the Central log  files are retained on the web server. If this option is enabled, older logs are automatically removed.

Keep the last controls how many days of log files should be retained if the Log Rotation option is enabled.

UI Settings

Hide Partner Reports for Customer or Restricted Users can be used to hide the menu and navigation items and restrict access to Partner Reports when a Customer or Restricted user is logged-in.

Hide Green Report for Customer or Restricted Users can be used to hide the menu and navigation items and restrict access to Green Report when a Customer or Restricted user is logged-in.

Hide Device Blacklists for Customer or Restricted Users can be used to hide the menu, navigation items and options, and restrict access to Device Blacklists when a Customer or Restricted user is logged-in.

Hide Quick Navigation Feature for All Central Pages can be used to hide the tree-based Quick Navigation from the left side of all pages in Central. If this option is enabled, the Customer Feedback buttons will not show as well.

Show Customer Feedback Controls to Admin Users will show the above Customer Feedback buttons to Admins, allowing them to directly submit feedback to FMAudit.

Show Customer Feedback Controls to Dealer Users will show the above Customer Feedback buttons to Admins, allowing them to directly submit feedback to FMAudit.

Customized Views

This section allows the administrators to restore the default Homepage layouts or remove the views customized by some Dealers. Customer, Dealer and Admin views can be reset or removed in this section.

Customized Homepage

This section allows the administrators to set different Home pages for different user types. These settings affect the page shown to the users right after they log into Central using the External Central Url.

End-User Account Creation

This section activates the feature when unregistered customers can register new accounts into Central by simply typing a valid email address and filling the required information.

Enabled controls if the feature is enabled or not

Show Link on Login Page controls if the feature is shown to on the login page or if the registration Url has to be manually distributed.

Custom Note/Question Text allows to define a custom text to be displayed as the Title of the Notes field in the form.

Authentication Valid for xx days controls for how long the Validation Url sent in the registration email is valid.

Parent Account specifies the Parent Account for the newly created customer accounts.

     Currently, only the Main Dealer Branch can be used as the Parent Account. In a future version this will be configurable.