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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.2

# What’s new in P4 Server administration in 2022.1

For a complete list of what’s new in this release, see the Release notes and What’s new in the Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Reference.

## Failback

To complement the failover feature, you can now Failback after failover.

## Real-time monitoring

Real-time monitoring can enhance server administration. You can set the rt.monitorfile configurable and adjust the monitor level while commands are running. To identify commands that have been holding locks on tables for long periods and the commands that are waiting for those locks to be released, set the monitor configurable to `10` or `25`.

## Other enhancements

- Option to set the `server.id` of the proxy server. See General options for P4P > `-xD [serverID]` in P4 Proxy

- p4 group has the optional `Description` field, which might be useful if your company has a large number of group

- Checkpoint and journal options enhancements in P4 Server (p4d) reference:

- Checkpoint production is easier with the `-P server-id` and `-R service` options. See `p4d [-z] [-R service | -P server-id] -jd file`

- Checkpoint recovery is easier with the `-R service` option. See `p4d [-z] -R service -jr file`

## P4V administration

- You can enable P4V to attempt to reconnect to the server and specify how many seconds between such attempts. See the P4V.Performance.ReconnectInterval property.

- You can prevent the user from editing any stream except the current stream opened for edit in the active workspace. See P4V.Features.AllowDirectStreamEdit

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