How to increase BOSH healthmanager agent_timeout settings in Opsmanager

Products

• Operations Manager

Issue/Introduction

vSphere HA and BOSH resurrector can conflict when a ESXi host crashes. BOSH may start recreating VMs faster than vSphere HA so the time to recover could increase. 
This article explains how to edit the default value of BOSH healthmanager's agent_timeout which is 60 seconds.

Resolution

• Enable Advanced Mode in the Ops Manager using How to Enable Advanced Mode in the Ops manager
• Obtain a UAA token from Ops Manager
• Set the override, details and examples can be found here

{
  "overrides": [ {
     "section": "instance_groups",
      "data": {
         "hm": {
            "intervals": {
               "agent_timeout": <YOUR_TIMEOUT_HERE>
            }
        }
     }
  }]
}

• You can verify the staged director config: https://developer.broadcom.com/xapis/tanzu-operations-manager-api/3.0//api/v0/staged/director/manifest/get/