Chocolatey Central Management Service Configuration File

WARNING

Any changes to the chocolatey-central-management.exe.config file will require that the Chocolatey Central Management Service be restarted.

There are a number of configuration options within the chocolatey-central-management.exe.config to control how the Chocolatey Central Management Service operates.

StaleActiveTimeoutBufferInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, to add as a buffer when checking for stale active computers in Chocolatey Central Management.

Default Value: 600

UpdateKpisTimerIntervalInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, of the interval between each execution of updating the Chocolatey Central Management KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).

Default Value: 180

CheckForComputerInformationMessagesToProcessTimerIntervalInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, of the interval between checking for computer information messages to process in Chocolatey Central Management.

Default Value: 30

CheckForDeploymentStepResultMessagesToProcessTimerIntervalInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, of the interval between checking for Deployment Step result messages to process in Chocolatey Central Management.

Default Value: 30

CheckForUnreachableComputersTimerIntervalInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, of the interval between checking for unreachable computers in Chocolatey Central Management.

Default Value: 180

CheckForStaleActiveDeploymentComputersTimerIntervalInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, of the interval between checking for stale active computers in Chocolatey Central Management.

Default Value: 240

CheckForScheduledDeploymentPlansTimerIntervalInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, of the interval between checking for scheduled Deployment Plans in Chocolatey Central Management.

Default Value: 60

ComputerInformationMessagesFolderPath

The path to the folder where incoming computer information messages will be stored.

Default Value: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\services\computer_information_messages

ComputerInformationMessagesProcessingFolderPath

The path to the folder where computer information messages will be processed.

Default Value: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\services\computer_information_messages_processing

DeploymentStepResultMessagesFolderPath

The path to the folder where incoming Deployment Step result messages will be stored.

Default Value: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\services\deployment_step_result_messages

DeploymentStepResultMessagesProcessingFolderPath

The path to the folder where Deployment Step result messages will be processed.

Default Value: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\services\deployment_step_result_messages_processing

DeploymentStepResultMessagesFailedFolderPath

The path to the folder where Deployment Step result messages that failed to process will be stored. (Available since v0.8.0)

Default Value: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\services\deployment_step_result_messages_failed

Chocolatey Configuration File

NOTE

When changes are made to these settings via the choco config command, there is no requirement to restart the CCM Service. These changes will be automatically picked up, and the necessary components within the CCM Service updated to use the changed values.

centralManagementServiceUrl

The is the URL that is used by the Chocolatey Central Management Service to listen for incoming requests from the Chocolatey Agents installed on client machines. This configuration setting is used by both the Chocolatey Central Management Service, as well as Chocolatey Agent.

Default Value: https://<Fully-Qualified-Domain-Name-Of-Host-Computer>:24020/ChocolateyManagementService

centralManagementReceiveTimeoutInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, that the Chocolatey Central Management Service connection can remain inactive, during which no application messages are received, before it is dropped.

Default Value: 30

centralManagementSendTimeoutInSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, that the Chocolatey Central Management Service will wait before raising an exception when attempting to perform a write operation.

Default Value: 30

centralManagementMaxReceiveMessageSizeInBytes

The maximum size, in bytes, for a message that can be processed by the Chocolatey Central Management Service.

Default Value: 2147483647