---
title: "Settings"
slug: "managing-general-settings"
tags: ["Content Services"]
updated: 2026-10-11T11:13:12Z
published: 2026-10-11T11:13:12Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/managing-general-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.ctera.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Settings

- Click **Settings** in the navigation pane for the following settings:
  - [System](/v1/docs/managing-general-settings#system)
  - [Services](/v1/docs/managing-general-settings#services)
  - [API Keys](/v1/docs/managing-general-settings#api-keys)
  - [Tools](/v1/docs/managing-general-settings#tools)
  - [Budgets](/v1/docs/managing-general-settings#budgets)

## System

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-O2VJRVOI.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A17%3A32Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A17%3A32Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=7knR%2FAzgB%2B%2FvYqnTFriJ2bzUj%2BTgVsWrmk2ng3drhik%3D) CTERA recommends keeping the default values unless CTERA support recommends different values. **Ingest Workers** – The number of ingestor workers for scaling. The more workers the faster the ingestion but the more GPU will be used. The workers are similar in concept to threads. **Embedding Mode** – The embedding mode breaks down words to numerical values that can be tokenized. The embedding mode is used to convert the numerical values in to a matrix for semantic context. Select the embedding mode to use from the drop-down list. The port must be open. See [Inbound Ports](https://kb.ctera.com/docs/technical-specification).

**Note**

Using the **Open AI** embedding mode consumes a lot of tokens. CTERA recommends using **Infinity** or if you have your own model, use **Ollama**.

**Embedding Model** – The way the embedding is generating the text. Choose the embedding model to use from the drop-down list but CTERA recommends not changing the embedding mode if you use the **Infinity** embedding mode. **Embedding Service URL** – The URL for the embedding mode. **Sparse Embedding Model** – The sparse embedding model to use from the drop-down list. **FastEmbedService URL** – The fast embed service URL. The port must be open. See [Inbound Ports](https://kb.ctera.com/docs/technical-specification). **Default Model** – The LLM that will be used as the default, from the LLMs defined to CTERA Content Services. **Classification Model** – The LLM model to use for data classification. If enabled, select the model from the drop-down list of LLMs defined to CTERA Content Services. **Summarize Model** – The LLM to use to create summaries. . **Vision-Language Model (VLM)** – The model to use for the VLM. If enabled, select the model from the drop-down list of LLMs defined to CTERA Content Services. **Personalized Chat Memory** – Save chat prompts across the user conversations.

## Services

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-B83ERZFB.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A17%3A32Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A17%3A32Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=7knR%2FAzgB%2B%2FvYqnTFriJ2bzUj%2BTgVsWrmk2ng3drhik%3D) **Guardrails Enabled** – Guardrails, defined in Security[Security](/v1/docs/security-3) are enabled by default. **Guardrails API Base URL** – The address where the guardrails APIs are located. **Guardrails Timeout (ms)** – The timeout.

## API Keys

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-KU0ZWK6E.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A17%3A32Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A17%3A32Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=7knR%2FAzgB%2B%2FvYqnTFriJ2bzUj%2BTgVsWrmk2ng3drhik%3D) **To create personal API keys for your account:**

1. Click **Generate New Key**.  

The **Generate New API Key** Window is displayed.  

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-NUIP0R3G.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A17%3A32Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A17%3A32Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=7knR%2FAzgB%2B%2FvYqnTFriJ2bzUj%2BTgVsWrmk2ng3drhik%3D)
2. Enter a key name and scope.
3. Select the expiration for the API key from the list or **Custom** to specify a specific number of days.  

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-O8J1VV0O.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A17%3A32Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A17%3A32Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=7knR%2FAzgB%2B%2FvYqnTFriJ2bzUj%2BTgVsWrmk2ng3drhik%3D)
4. Click **Generate**.

## Tools

![Image](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-KUF00HW8.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A17%3A32Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A17%3A32Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=7knR%2FAzgB%2B%2FvYqnTFriJ2bzUj%2BTgVsWrmk2ng3drhik%3D) The API keys for specific tools used by Content Services.

## Budgets

For future use.