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Contents of a KB

A KB contains knowledge in the form of items and, in some cases, additional real-time data. A KB itself is not an item.

Items

A KB can contain any number of items, subject to the memory and disk storage limitations of your computer.

The items in a KB can represent both permanent and transient knowledge. For a description of how items represent knowledge, see Understanding the Knowledge Contained in Items.

System Tables

Each KB contains at least one set of system tables. System tables contain information that determines the default behavior of a G2 process. You can specify new values for any system table parameter, or you can use the default values.

For a description of each system table and their attributes, see Chapter 6, System Tables.

The system tables that are currently active for a KB are called the installed system tables. Only the installed system tables affect the behavior of G2's run-time environment.

A modularized KB can contain more than one set of system tables when the KB consists of more than one module. Each module has its own set of system tables.

If you save a modularized KB into separate KB files, each KB file contains its own set of system tables.
If you save an inconsistently modularized KB into a single file, or if you intentionally save a modularized KB into a single file, the KB file contains one set of system tables for each module in the KB.

For more information on modularized KBs, see Working with Modularized KBs.

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