There are three client settings exposed in ZENworks Control Center (accessed by clicking > > ):
Number of Retries: Refers to the maximum number of retries a device attempts.
Initial Wait Time (in seconds): Refers to the initial wait time between retries. All subsequent waits increment by 1 second.
Max wait time: Refers to the maximum time the device waits between retries.
By default, in ZENworks 10 Configuration Management, the settings were 15/4/16 for the above parameters. The default settings in ZENworks Configuration Management 10.2 are 20/10/20. For the majority of the testing, retries were set at 60/30/60. A server was never marked as “bad” and all content was delivered.
No degradation of performance at the client was observed when the retries were set high.