---
title: "Enabling Health Check Schedule"
description: "After you set health check schedule for a backup job, Veeam Agent automatically enables this backup health check schedule for the job. You can also enable health check schedule manually — for example, if you previously disabled it."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/backup_job_cmd_healthcheck_enable.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Performing Backup > Creating Backup Jobs > Creating Backup Job with Command Line Interface > Configuring Health Check Schedule > Enabling Health Check Schedule"
dateModified: "2026-11-02"
---

# Enabling Health Check Schedule

After you set health check schedule for a backup job, Veeam Agent automatically enables this backup health check schedule for the job. You can also enable health check schedule manually — for example, if you previously disabled it. To enable health check schedule, use the following command:

```
veeamconfig healthcheck enable --light --jobid <job_id>
```

or

```
veeamconfig healthcheck enable --light --jobname <job_name>
```

where:

- `<job_id>` — ID of the backup job for which you want to configure health check schedule. You should look up the backup job ID before you run the command to enable the schedule — for example, with the `veeamconfig job list` command. To learn more, see [Viewing List of Backup Jobs](backup_job_list.md).
- `<job_name>` — name of the backup job for which you want to configure the health check schedule.

  ::: tip

  If the name of the job consists of several words and contains spaces, use quote marks around the name — for example, `--jobName "Files Backup"`.

  :::

For example:

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig healthcheck enable --light --jobname SystemBackup
```

You can disable health check schedule for a job at any time. To learn more, see [Disabling Health Check Schedule](backup_job_cmd_healthcheck_disable.md).