System advanced settings

You can use the following advanced settings to more accurately tune the system that contains the WinCollect 10 agent.

Table 1: WinCollect 10 system advanced settings
Parameter	Default value	Description
Max Archived Patch Folders	20	The maximum number of patch archive folders (patch_`yyyymmdd_hhmmss`) to keep.
Configuration Console's Port	3000	The port that the agent's webserver hosts the configuration console on.
Maximum Entity Read Buffer	16384	The size of the buffer to read large entities from the console UI.
Check patch folder every (seconds)	10	How often to check whether files are in the patch folder. Select `0` to disable.
Check for expired cached IP every (seconds)	60	How often to check whether cached IPs are expired. Select `0` to disable.
Check the health of the system every (seconds)	30	How often to check sources, targets, threads, and resources.
Source device retry wait time	60000	The initial wait time (ms) to try to reconnect to a source device. The default value is 1 minute.
Source device maximum retry amount	0	The number of times to try to reconnect to a source device before it gives up. Select `0` to keep trying indefinitely.
Source device exponential wait factor	5	The exponential factor to increase wait time after each try. The default setting of `5` tries at 5 minutes, 25 minutes, 125 minutes... Select `1` to use linear wait factor.
Source device linear wait factor	0	The linear factor to increase wait time after each try. Example: If the retry wait time is 300000 (5 minutes), and the wait factor is 1, the source tries at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes...
Source device maximum retry wait time	360000	The max wait time to try to reconnect to a source device. The default value is 1 hour.
Bad SID Translation text	N/A	The text to use when a SID cannot be translated, use `IGNORE` to leave the SID as is.
Source start query delay time	1000	Delay in milliseconds to start querying the sources.
Source start duration	Auto	How long to take to start querying all the sources, `AUTO` queries up to 25 per second and evenly spread the load over 5 seconds.
Source minimum thread count	0	0 means auto calc (DvcCnt/100)
Source maximum thread count	0	0 means auto calc (DvcCnt/20)
Source batch size	100
Source cached IP expiration time (seconds)	900	Seconds to keep the computed IP cached for each remote device. The default value is 15 minutes. Select `0` to disable refresh.
Destination maximum number of events in memory	10000	The maximum number of events in memory that are waiting to be sent before the agent starts dumping to disk. Note: This setting is per destination.
Destination device retry wait time	10000	The initial wait time (ms) to try to reconnect to a destination. The default value is 10 seconds.
Destination device maximum retry amount	0	The number of times to try to reconnect to a destination before it gives up. Select `0` to keep trying indefinitely.
Destination device exponential wait factor	1	The exponential factor to increase wait time after each try. Select `1` to use linear wait factor.
Destination device linear wait factor	10000	The linear factor (ms) to increase wait time after each try. Example: If the retry wait time is 10000 (10 seconds), and the wait factor is 1, the source tries at 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds...
Destination device maximum retry wait time	300000	The maximum wait time (ms) to try to reconnect to a destination. The default value is 5 minutes.
Destination maximum payload size for UDP	1020	The maximum payload size for UDP.
Destination maximum payload size for TCP	32000	The maximum payload size for TCP/TLS.
Check Primary every (seconds)	60	How often to check whether the primary destination is back online when the agent is using the secondary destination.
Use non blocking socket connection	Enabled	Use non blocking socket connection works in combination with Socket connection timeout setting.
Socket connection timeout	10000	Milliseconds allowed to connect.
Socket connection established wait time	50	Milliseconds to wait for a connection to be established between checks.
Allow live statistics collection	Enabled	While the console is running, the agent collects live stats for the Dashboard once per second.
Statistics heartbeat timeout	120	If the agent doesn't receive a request from the console after 120 seconds, it stops collecting live stats.
Minimum task count in queue for using index	24	The minimum number of tasks in the queue before the agent starts using an index.
Number of tasks per node in index	8	The number of tasks per node in the index.
Number of task requeue in index	20	The number of times a task is put back in the queue before the agent checks the average sequential search.
Maximum average number of sequential tasks	16	The maximum average number of sequential tasks to search per node before reindexing.
User data directory	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%/WinCollect10Beta/Data/	The directory where WinCollect stores events, raw messages, and bookmarks.
Events on disk max disk space	6144	The maximum disk space to use (MB), when pushing events on disk when unable to send.
Max worker pool kill timeout	10000	The total time allocated to peaceful termination of the whole worker pool split equally between the number of workers in the pool.
Max worker kill timeout	2000	The maximum timeout allowed per worker regardless of the pool maximum.