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# /show/system/properties

```
URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/show/system/properties
```

Returns server configuration and version related information to the caller. The
admin tool uses it to present server related information to the user.

## Input Parameter Description

<ParamField body="options" type="map of string to strings">
  Optional parameters.

  The default value is an empty map ( \{} ).

  <Expandable title="options">
    <ParamField body="properties">
      A list of comma separated names of properties requested. If not specified, all properties will be returned.
    </ParamField>
  </Expandable>
</ParamField>

## Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query.  Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

<ResponseField name="status" type="String">
  'OK' or 'ERROR'
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="message" type="String">
  Empty if success or an error message
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_type" type="String">
  'show\_system\_properties\_response' or 'none' in case of an error
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data" type="String">
  Empty string
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_str" type="JSON or String">
  This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/system/properties endpoint:

  <Expandable title="data_str">
    <ResponseField name="property_map" type="map of string to strings">
      A map of server configuration parameters and version information.

      <Expandable title="property_map">
        <ResponseField name="conf.enable_worker_http_servers">
          Boolean value indicating whether the system is configured for multi-head ingestion.

          * **TRUE**: Indicates that the system is configured for multi-head ingestion.
          * **FALSE**: Indicates that the system is NOT configured for multi-head ingestion.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="conf.worker_http_server_ips">
          Semicolon (';') separated string of IP addresses of all the ingestion-enabled worker heads of the system.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="conf.worker_http_server_ports">
          Semicolon (';') separated string of the port numbers of all the ingestion-enabled worker ranks of the system.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="conf.hm_http_port">
          The host manager port number (an integer value).
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="conf.enable_ha">
          Flag indicating whether high availability (HA) is set up (a boolean value).
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="conf.ha_ring_head_nodes">
          A comma-separated string of high availability (HA) ring node URLs.  If HA is not set up, then an empty string.
        </ResponseField>
      </Expandable>
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="info" type="map of string to strings">
      Additional information.
    </ResponseField>
  </Expandable>

  Empty string in case of an error.
</ResponseField>