You can configure the general settings for Tiered Electronic Distribution (TED).
I/O Rate
You can configure different I/O rate settings for a Distribution, based on a priority: High, Medium, or Low. This allows you to control the bandwidth a Distribution will use. For example, if you want your High priority Distributions to utilize the most bandwidth, you would configure their I/O rates with the High priority.
Maximum Concurrent Distributions
Specifies a default maximum number of distribution threads that can be running concurrently. The default value is 10.
Connection Time-Out
Specifies a default allotment of time before the Distributor times out when connecting to another node. The default value is 1 minute.
This setting can be increased or decreased to allow for messages to pass back and forth between agents during the distribution process. If one node is expecting to receive a message from another, there should be a reasonable time to wait before giving up and assuming that the sender is no longer working. With patching enabled, this interval may need to be increased on very slow or busy links where longer delays are frequent. Note that the Distributor contacts the Subscriber and then creates the patch.
Working Directory
Enter a default TED directory to store archives, persistent status, and temporary files on a server. The directory should be located on a volume with enough free space to handle processing of Distributions.
Parent Subscriber
If you don't want Subscribers to receive Distributions directly from a Distributor, you can assign a default parent Subscriber that will pass on the Distributions indirectly from the Distributor.
Disk Space Desired
You can specify the disk space that should be free for installing Distributions.