Changing the temp folder for the SPE Rest API

Products

• Protection Engine for Cloud Services
• Protection Engine for NAS

Issue/Introduction

You seek to move the temp folder for the Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) RestAPI from /tmp to another location.

Environment

SPE 9.x installed on Linux

Resolution

Follow the steps below move the temp folder for the SPE RestAPI:

1. From the Command Line Interface (CLI) navigate to the RestAPI folder:
   

   cd /<SPE_INSTALL_FOLDER>/RestAPI

2. Make a backup of the application.properties file:
   

   cp application.properties application.properties.bak

3. Open the original application.properties file in a text editor such as "vi"
4. Add the following line under the "tomcat" section and save the file:
   

   server.tomcat.basedir=/path/to/folder

5. Restart the SPE Rest API service:
   

   /etc/init.d/symcrestapiservice restart