show a heartbeat within a 20 second grace period, the Ceph OSD Daemon may
consider the neighboring Ceph OSD Daemon ``down`` and report it back to a Ceph
Monitor, which will update the Ceph Cluster Map. You may change this grace
-period by adding an ``osd heartbeat grace`` setting under the ``[osd]`` section
-of your Ceph configuration file, or by setting the value at runtime.
+period by adding an ``osd heartbeat grace`` setting under the ``[mon]``
+and ``[osd]`` or ``[global]`` section of your Ceph configuration file,
+or by setting the value at runtime.
.. ditaa:: +---------+ +---------+
:Description: The elapsed time when a Ceph OSD Daemon hasn't shown a heartbeat
that the Ceph Storage Cluster considers it ``down``.
+ This setting has to be set in both the [mon] and [osd] or [global]
+ section so that it is read by both the MON and OSD daemons.
:Type: 32-bit Integer
:Default: ``20``
OPTION(osd_command_thread_suicide_timeout, OPT_INT, 15*60)
OPTION(osd_heartbeat_addr, OPT_ADDR, entity_addr_t())
OPTION(osd_heartbeat_interval, OPT_INT, 6) // (seconds) how often we ping peers
-OPTION(osd_heartbeat_grace, OPT_INT, 20) // (seconds) how long before we decide a peer has failed
+
+// (seconds) how long before we decide a peer has failed
+// This setting is read by the MONs and OSDs and has to be set to a equal value in both settings of the configuration
+OPTION(osd_heartbeat_grace, OPT_INT, 20)
OPTION(osd_heartbeat_min_peers, OPT_INT, 10) // minimum number of peers
OPTION(osd_heartbeat_use_min_delay_socket, OPT_BOOL, false) // prio the heartbeat tcp socket and set dscp as CS6 on it if true