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Installation and Configuration
Command and Utility Reference : Managing installation configurations : configutil : DONT_OVERRIDE
 
DONT_OVERRIDE
If you want to never overwrite some specific settings during import, such as an appserver’s broker port value, you can use the DONT_OVERRIDE option.
This option can be specified in the configutil.properties file as shown below:
[Setting Name]
DONT_OVERRIDE:(PropertyHierarchy).propertyName
The format of PropertyHierarchy is:
ParentSection/ChildSection[/ChildSection/...])
How to override a setting in the ubroker.properties file
If you do not want to override the srvrLogFile and the brkrLogFile properties in the [UBroker.AS.asbroker1] section, add the following in the configutil.properties file:
[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/asbroker1).srvrLogFile
DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/asbroker1).brokerLogFile
If you do not want to override the srvrLogFile and the brkrLogFile properties in the [UBroker.AS] section, add the following in the configutil.properties file:
[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS).srvrLogFile
DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS).brokerLogFile

If you do not want to override the srvrLogFile property in all subsections of [UBroker.AS] such as [UBroker.AS.asbroker1], [UBroker.AS.asbroker2], add the following in the configutil.properties file:
[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/*).srvrLogFile
DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/*).brokerLogFile
If you have set OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME=false and you want to forcibly override the restURL property in the [REST.restmgr1] section, add the following in the configutil.properties file:
[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
FORCE_OVERRIDE: (REST/restmgr1).restUrl
For properties that do not belongs to any section, override as follows:
DONT_OVERRIDE:.propertyName
FORCE_OVERRIDE:.propertyName
Note: For more examples on registry entries and XML files, see the Importing Window’s registry and Importing XML files sections.