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Extensions Service Settings

Extensions Service settings define the behavior of the VE Service and all Collectors. To access the settings:

  1. Open the Veeam Collectors tab.
  2. In the left pane, select the root Veeam Collectors node from the hierarchy.
  3. In the Administration section on the right, click the Extensions Service Settings link. The Extensions Service Settings dialog box will open.

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Hover the mouse pointer over any setting to see settings descriptions.

  1. In the settings dialog box, you can change the setting values as follows:
  • To change a value of a string or numeric type, double-click it in the list and enter a new value.
  • To change an option value, double-click it and select a new value from the drop-down list.
  • To restore the default value, click the Set all values to default link on the right.
  1. Click Save to apply changes.

The following Extensions Service settings can be changed:

Name

Default Value

Description

CollectorHeartbeatTimeout

900

Defines time interval (in seconds) within which Collector heatbeat is expected before Collector status changes to Unreachable.

LoadBalanceOnCollectorRecovery

True

Defines whether monitoring load should be rebalanced when an unreachable Collector reconnects as a failback method.

ReportCollectorHealthStateInterval

15

Defines the time interval (in minutes) at which VE Service reports the state of registered Collectors to Operations Manager. The value must be in range 5-120.

ReportTargetHealthStateInterval

15

Defines the time interval (in minutes) at which VE Service reports the state of connected VMware servers to Operations Manager. The value must be in range 5-120.

SplitClusters

False

Defines whether vSphere clusters should be split into multiple monitoring jobs.

TargetConnectionTimeout

180

Defines timeout threshold (in seconds) for connecting from Virtualization Extension Manager to a vSphere server.

TargetRefreshPeriod

900

Defines time interval (in seconds) between refreshing VMware server topology in Veeam Virtualization Extensions.

TraceLevel

Info

Defines the level of detail to wtite to the Veeam Virtualization Extensions log file.