1 Stop the BIRT iHub cluster. For information on stopping the cluster, see "Taking the cluster offline," in Chapter 3, "Configuring BIRT iHub to use an alternative database on a Windows platform," or Chapter 4, "Configuring BIRT iHub to use an alternative database on a Linux platform," in the BIRT iHub System Administration Guide.

2 Navigate to the shared configuration directory. For example, if the system administrator created a folder for the shared configuration directory named config_cluster, then in a default BIRT iHub installation on Windows, where BIRT iHub was installed as an individual module, the path to the shared configuration directory is:

3 As a best practice, create a backup copy of acserverconfig.xml. Then, open acserverconfig.xml using a text editor.

4 Find a <Template> element in which you want to define the connection pool reap interval. Within that <Template> element, find the <ViewingService> subelement. The following example shows the <ViewingService> subelement of the small <Template> element in the acserverconfig.xml file that installs with BIRT iHub:

5 Add the DefaultConnectionPoolReapInterval property to the list of <ViewingService> attributes. Specify the value as the number of seconds between each time the maintenance thread runs. The default value is 600. The permissible range of values is 0 through 86400. The following example shows the <ViewingService> element with the DefaultConnectionPoolReapInterval attribute added to the list of attributes:

6 Perform steps 4 and 5 for each template in which you want to specify the connection pool reap interval. Save and exit the file.

7 Start the BIRT iHub cluster. For information on performing this task, see "How to start the cluster," in Chapter 3, “Configuring BIRT iHub to use an alternative database on a Windows platform," or Chapter 4, "Configuring BIRT iHub to use an alternative database on a Linux platform," in the BIRT iHub System Administration Guide.