How to modify API timeout values

Solution

• The virtualization platform provides preset API timeout values for various resource operations. This section describes how to modify API timeout values for core virtual machine resources and operations.

  Before modifying an API timeout value, you can run the QueryGlobalConfig category=apiTimeout name=$resourceName command to query the default timeout for the relevant resource operation.

• Set the snapshot deletion timeout to 24 hours:

  1. Set the batch snapshot deletion timeout:

     UpdateGlobalConfig category=apiTimeout name=org.zstack.header.storage.snapshot.APIBatchDeleteVolumeSnapshotMsg value=24h

  2. Set the single snapshot deletion timeout:

      UpdateGlobalConfig category=apiTimeout name=org.zstack.header.storage.snapshot.APIDeleteVolumeSnapshotMsg value=24h

• Set the host reconnection timeout to two hours:

  UpdateGlobalConfig category=apiTimeout name=org.zstack.header.host.APIReconnectHostMsg value=2h

• Set the Management Node startup timeout to 20 minutes:

  zstack-ctl start_node --timeout 1200

• Set the backup task timeout to 120 hours:

  UpdateGlobalConfig category=apiTimeout name=org.zstack.header.storage.volume.backup.APICreateVolumeBackupMsg value=120h