You said "How heartbeat is configured?"
Ujwol :
To configure heart beat :
Configure the Policy Server Heartbeat Interval
The heartbeat interval helps Agent Discovery determine the state of an agent. When the agent does not send any heartbeat message beyond 24 hours, the state of the agent instance changes to inactive. You can configure the heartbeat interval to change the default value, which is 24 hours.
Follow these steps:
- Open a command prompt in the computer hosting the Policy Server.
Enter the following command:
- Enter SM.
- Enter the value against the MinTimeBetweenAgentStatusUpdates option.
- Enter C.
- Enter the new value.
Default: 24 hours
Minimum: One hour - Enter Q three times.
You said "Doesn't policy server already know which web agents are active as they are polling to policy server?"
Ujwol -> Yes , you are right . it is just that we wanted to separate the two functionality. Agent Discovery has traditionally caused lot of issues and many of our customer wishes to disable it.