Retries & Timeouts
Use this guide to review how Cloudaware Patch Management uses retries and timeouts to handle temporary patching issues, limit long-running jobs, and flag repeated failures for investigation.
Retries
Retries are used for:
- Temporary repository or network outages.
- Short‑lived locking issues with package managers.
- Brief agent connectivity problems.
Cloudaware avoids unbounded retries, setting limits to prevent jobs from running for too long.
Timeouts
Cloudaware sets sensible timeouts for:
- Package downloads and installation.
- Pre‑ and post‑checks.
- Reboot and post‑reboot verification.
If a host exceeds timeouts repeatedly, Cloudaware records it as a failure in the report for further investigation rather than letting jobs hang.