Adaptiva OneSite - Forcing a device to become an RVP

An RVP in the world of Adaptiva OneSite is a client that is selected as the 'master' for the subnet, all clients on that subnet will speak to it as their first port of call for content etc. The election process used by Adaptiva OneSite is very good and will generally select the best client, uptime is first of all considered, followed by chassis type, etc.

However sometimes you may wish to force a client to become an RVP or even prohibit it from becoming an RVP, in order to do this locate the following registry key:

x64: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\javasoft\prefs\Adaptiva\client
x32: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\javasoft\prefs\Adaptiva\client

The key is contentsystem.client_type, this can be set to one of the following values:

 0 = Standard Client
 1 = Preferred Client
-1 = Prohibited Client

Set this and restart the AdaptivaClient Service and the client should behave as you have set. You can verify successful RVP election via the Adaptiva Workbench, Network Topology perspective.

Cheers
Wayne