SAFR Server provides settings files to modify its behavior.  These files are located in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\RealNetworks\SAFR\covi\app\config\covi
/opt/RealNetworks/SAFR/covi/app/configi/covi

All files except "persistent-overrides.properties" are overwritten with each release.  Therefore, any modifications made to other files will be lost with each release.  To ensure configuration changes are persisted, they should be copied into persistent-overrides.properties.

By default, persistent-overrides.properties includes a ".example" extension.  This extension must be removed.  Once removed, properties from the other files may be added to this file.  This file will remain unchanged from release to release.

Example:

Assume a facility id has been set in avigilon.properties.  The 'avigilon.facility.id.override' property and its value should be copied from avigilon.properties and added to persistent-overrides.properties.  persistent-overrides.properties should then look like the following:

## Add properties here that should not be overwritten on overinstall

##
## Uncomment this, should see value in logging startup 
## instead of APPLICATION, OPERATION or DEFAULT
##
## application.override.present=PERSISTENT-OVERRIDE
avigilon.facility.id.override=123

Ovserve that the comments ( "##"  characters ) must be removed from the font of the line in order for it to take effect.

Note also, the persistent-overrides.properties file requires administrative privileges to edit.  If using Windows Notepad, open Notepad as Administrator before opening the persistent-overrides.properties file.