About TERMINALFOUR

Last Modified:: 17 May 2019
User Level:: Administrator

To get information about your TERMINALFOUR installation including licensing information go to System Administration > System Settings > About

Your User Level determines what you can see in the About page. The Administrator's view shows detailed information about TERMINALFOUR and the system. You can access this with the five tabs below:

Other, non-Administrator users can only see the General tab with basic TERMINALFOUR and System information:

General Tab

Administrators can see system information such as:

Item	Description
TERMINALFOUR	Information related to your TERMINALFOUR installation including the version number and current active requests
Version	The version number of your TERMINALFOUR installation.
System state patch level	The patch level that TERMINALFOUR has been upgraded to.
Up since	The date and time when the application was started/restarted adjusted for the time on your local machine. e.g.. if the application was started at 02:00 and the TERMINALFOUR user was located in timezone one hour ahead, the "Up since" time displayed would be 03:00.
Total requests	The total number of login requests since the application was last started.
Active requests	The total number of login of active login for the application.

System	Information related to the system that hosts your TERMINALFOUR installation.
OS Architecture	The processor architecture used by the host operating system.
OS name	The operating system name
OS version	The operating system version
System time	The operating system date and time value when the About page was requested. This value is updated when you refresh the page. An offset is shown if you are not in the same time zone as the server.

Java	Details of the Java installation used by TERMINALFOUR.
Vendor	The vendor who has implemented the currently installed version of the Java Virtual Machine on the system.
Java version	The version number of the currently installed version of Java.
Java home	The path to the Java compiler on your system.
Classpaths	The Java Runtime Environment classpaths.
Available processors	The number of processors or cores capable of executing Java code.
Heap memory	The amount of Used, Allocated and Maximum Heap Memory used by the system to store Java Objects.

User
Name	The name of the user that runs the Tomcat application.
Working directory	The path to the directory where Tomcat writes files required during run time.
Home directory	The path to the directory where Tomcat `conf`, `webapps`, `logs`, and `work` directories are stored.

Servlet container	Details of the Servlet container used to publish web pages.
Container name	The name and version number of Tomcat, the Servlet container used by TERMINALFOUR.
Specification version	The Servlet specification number used by the installed version of Tomcat. See this table mapping specification and Tomcat versions.
Context name	The name of the TERMINALFOUR installation .war file deployed in Tomcat.
Context directory	The path to the directory that TERMINALFOUR is deployed from.

Content Tab

The Content Tab shows the content limit for your license, the Content Items in the system and the number of Content Items that are counted as part of your license as well as any remaining Content Items that can be used.

A pie chart provides a visual representation of the breakdown. If you require clarification on how content totals are calculated a brief description is provided below.

Item	Description
Licence content limit	The maximum number of Content Items that are included as part of your license.
Content items in system	The total number of Content Items in TERMINALFOUR
Content items counted for licence purposes	The total number of Content Items in TERMINALFOUR that count towards your license content limit.
Remaining	The number of Content Items that you have remaining before the content limit is reached.

Published Content Items are counted toward your license's content limit if:

they have a status of Approved
they are located in the Section of a Channel
they are associated with one or Channels
its current Section's ancestors have a status of Approved
they originated from a form submission and are published

The following are not counted toward your license's content limit:

Media Files
System Content Items
Orphaned Content Items
Expired Content Items
Content Items in a Section that is not associated with a Channel
Content Items in a Section or Branch that has a status of Pending
Content Items in a Section or Branch that has a status of Inactive
Content Items originating from form submissions that are not published

In addition:

Mirrored Content Items are only counted once
Translated Content Items are counted once for each language

The "Detailed breakdown of Totals" table below provides a list of Content Item and Section totals by language and status. The label "smxx" indicates Content Items that are Language independent.

The "Statistics" table provides you with Section statistics:

Item	Description
Content per Section	The average number of Content Items per Section.
Deepest Section	A breadcrumb listing names of the Section paths to the section that has the highest number of levels deep. The highest number of levels is displayed beside the row heading. This ignores system Sections and Media.
Widest Branch	A breadcrumb listing names of the Section paths to the section that has the highest number of child sections. The widest number is displayed beside the row heading. This ignores system Sections and Media

Item

Description

Content per Section

The average number of Content Items per Section.

Deepest Section

A breadcrumb listing names of the Section paths to the section that has the highest number of levels deep. The highest number of levels is displayed beside the row heading.

This ignores system Sections and Media.

Widest Branch

A breadcrumb listing names of the Section paths to the section that has the highest number of child sections. The widest number is displayed beside the row heading.

This ignores system Sections and Media

Environment Tab

This contains all the System Environment variables like the context_url.

Item	Description
context_url	Specifies the base URL of the TERMINALFOUR application servlet. This setting can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > General. The installation wizard sets it automatically so there should be no reason to change it.
debug_auto_publish	Debug automatic publish. Outputs the same logging information for automatic publishes as manual publish – System administration > System Settings > Advanced
default_sender	The email address used to send automated email notifications. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > General.
enable-caching	Enabling caching is recommended as disabling can impact performance. This value can be changed in System administration > System settings > Advanced.
enable-publish-logfile	This is a deprecated setting and is disabled because it could fill up disk space if every publish log is saved and not manually cleared. Since the log file is always generated now, enabling this will save the one that is already created.
enable-transfer-logfile	As with enable-publish-logfile, this is a deprecated setting and should be left disabled.
enable_hierarchical_access_control	If enabled, when Group Access Control is used, Child Sections will inherit the rights of the Parent Section unless a more specific (or stringent) access rule is applied. This value can be changed in System Administration > Set up Sites & Channels > Access Control
file-char-remove	If enabled this setting removes specified characters from filenames. This value can be changed at System Administration > System Settings > Preview & Publish.
file_part_separator	Specifies the character(s) used to separate spaces in filenames. e.g., if a hyphen is specificed as the file separator, a Section named Contact Us will publish as contact-us.html This value can be changed at System Administration > System Settings > Preview & Publish. Note: It is advisable to use hyphens as other characters can cause issues when linking to fulltext pages.
file_store	Specifies the server directory where uploaded files are stored. This applies to Media Library files and files uploaded via file or image elements. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
max_upload_size	Sets the maximum size (in kilobytes) of files uploaded to TERMINALFOUR. This applies to Media Library files and files uploaded via file or image elements. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
media-output-directory	Specifies the directory for published Media Files. By default, this is called "media" in the Channel Root (output directory). This value can be changed at System Administration > System Settings > Preview & Publish.
publish-logfile-dir	Specifies the directory location for the Publish log file. This value can be changed at System Administration > System Settings > Preview & Publish
sm_location	The application directory that TERMINALFOUR is installed in. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
t4-cache-pre-gen-preview	Re-initializes previews when creating or editing content on the selected Channel(s) to ensure accuracy. This value can be changed at System Administration > System Settings > Preview & Publish
t4-cache-builder-debug-load	Adds cache builder times to logs. Can be changed at System administration > System settings > Advanced
t4-max-cache-build-processes	A numeric value that represents the number of threads which may be used when building the cache. The higher this number, the faster it's built. Defaults to the CPU count for the server. Minimum of 1. Each thread will be a DB connection. In some cases, the machine may have more CPUs than Database connections. Restricting this number will prevent all the connections from being exhausted. Can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced
t4-publisher-debug-load	When enabled, the same information is output to the logs for both manual and automatic publishes. This value can be changed by the "Debug automatic publish" option in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
t4-query-users	The usernames of users permitted to use the Query Handler. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
t4-skin-file-location	The root location of the skins directory. This value can be changed by the "Skin files location" option in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
t4-skin-no-cache	When enabled, skin files are not cached. This value can be changed by the "Don't allow the caching of skin files" option in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
t4-suppress-formatter-not-found-warnings	When enabled, warnings about missing Content Layouts will not be included in the application server log. This value can be changed by the "Hide warnings about missing Content Layouts" option in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
temp	Specifies the directory where temporary files are stored. This must be a valid, writeable, filesystem location. If a temp directory is not specified, the application server `work` directory is used. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
tm-cleanup-debug	When enabled, a comparison between the rules defined for upload in transfer sites and the currently transferring directory/extension is output. These are output to the screen, the transfer log and the application server log files. This value can be changed by the "Debug transfer cleanup" option in System Administration > System Settings > Advanced.
transfer-logfile-dir	Specifies the directory to output transfer logs to. If a directory is not specified, the content store directory is used. This value can be changed in System Administration > System Settings > Transfer.

Listeners Tab

A list of all Event Listeners enabled on your System.

Database Tab

This provides information about the Database such as the name, type and user name. You can also see information on the JDBC driver including its version number.

Item	Description
Database Information
Registered query factories	These allow TERMINALFOUR to efficiently generate queries that will work with a wide variety of databases.
Database	The details for the database that your TERMINALFOUR installation is using.
Name	The name of the database.
Version	The database version
Address	The database address
Connected user	The username that TERMINALFOUR is using to connect to the database.
SQL 92 support	SQL 92 conformance level
Supports transactions	Describes whether the database supports ACID transactions.
JDBC	The details of the database connection driver settings used by Java.
Driver name	The name of the driver used.
Version	The version of the driver.
Datasource class	The name of the datasource class used.
Connection class	The name of the connection class used.