Managing the Behavior and Performance

You may want to change various settings for Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance for better user experience and performance. The configuration settings are now exposed in the user interface for easy and quick access.

Only shd-admin user or user with Administrative privilege can modify the following properties. You can modify following properties from Skyline Health Diagnostics user interface.

Log File Size

This property indicates the maximum allowed file size for Skyline Health Diagnostics logs. If the size of the logs exceeds this value, the logs are overwritten. Note the value is specified in Megabyte (MB).

Log File Count

This property indicates the number of Skyline Health Diagnostics log files that will be retained after log rotation.

Password History

This property indicates the number of saved passwords that were used previously. Note: You cannot reuse any of the saved passwords.

Maximum Password Age

This property indicates the maximum age of a password in days after which UI authentication will fail with password expired error. Beyond this period, the UI authentication will fail. You can set the values 90 or 180 days.

Log in Failure Count

This property specifies the permitted number of authentication failures before the user account is locked. Setting to 0 will deactivate Account Lockout.

Log in Failure Window

This property specifies the time duration in minutes to track authentication failures before account lockout.

Account Lockout Duration

This property specifies the amount of time (in minutes) the account remains locked. During this time User is disallowed from accessing the UI.

Log Analyze Limit

Limit the log analysis to log events within last "Log Analyze Limit" days from log collection time. Setting to 0 will deactivate the limit.

Number of Log Indexers

This property specifies the number of log indexers deployed for log indexing. The log indexer helps to index the logs, faster the indexing done, quickly logs can be analyzed and report can be generated. Recommended number of indexers are n-1, where n is number of vCPUs for Skyline Health Diagnostics VM. The default vCPUs for VM are four (4) so, its recommended keeping this value to three (3).

Number of Log Extractors

This property specifies the number of log extractions that can run in parallel.

Log Generation Timeout

This property specifies period (in minutes) for which analyze workflow will wait log for log bundle generation to complete. The value being 0 indicates no timeout. Used during the log collection phase of analyze operation.

Log Download Timeout

This property specifies period (in minutes) for which analyze workflow will wait for log bundle download to complete. The value being 0 indicates no timeout. Used during the log collection phase of analyze operation.

Log Extraction Timeout

This property specifies period (in minutes) for which analyze workflow will wait for log bundle extraction to complete. The value being 0 indicates no timeout. Used during the log extraction phase of analyze operation.

SSH Keepalive Timeout

This property specifies period (in minutes) for which a workflow will wait for an SSH connection to respond.

Show Owned Reports Only

This property allows access to a report that you own. Note: shd-admin has access to all reports.

Report Retention Period

This property indicates the purge reports older than the specified number of days. Use 0 to deactivate auto purge.

HTTP/HTTPS Connection Timeout

This property specifies the timespan (in seconds) to wait before the external HTTP/HTTPS connections timeout.

Max VCG Update Connections

This property specifies the number of parallel connections established to VCG site during VCG update.

Max VCG Update Requests/Min

This property specifies the number of requests per minute sent to VCG site during VCG update.