Default polling settings and parameters for XenServer lists the XenServer polling parameters.

Table 1. Default polling settings and parameters for XenServer

Parameter

Default value

Description

Hypervisor Polling setting

AnalysisMode

ENABLED,DISABLED

Default: ENABLED

Enables or disables polling.

PollingInterval

30 to 3600 seconds

Default: 240 seconds

Time between successive polls.

Retries

0 to 10 retries

Default: 3

Number of retry polls to perform when the initial poll fails.

Timeout

10 to 10000 milliseconds

Default: 700 milliseconds

Amount of time to wait for the poll response before the first poll request times out. The timeout value doubles for each successive retry.

For Timeout=700 milliseconds (0.7 seconds) and Retries=3:

  • 0.7 seconds for first retry

  • 1.4 seconds for second retry

  • 2.8 seconds for third retry

XenServer Polling -External setting

AnalysisMode

ENABLED,DISABLED

Default: ENABLED

Enables or disables connectivity analysis, if external poller is used.

Xen VirtualMachine > Virtual Machine setting

DisableEvents

TrueFalseDefault: False

Set this to TRUE to disable all the events for this Virtual Machine. This option is applicable only if DisableVMToAMPMImportation is set to FALSE.

DisableVMToolsEvents

TrueFalseDefault: False

Set this attribute to TRUE if you want to disable VMTools events for this Virtual Machine.