Setting and resetting the request timeout for a virus scan

You can change how long Data ONTAP should wait for a virus scan to finish before requesting the status of the scan. This situation occurs when you have a slow network or your virus scanner is slow, and you want to avoid the scan request from timing out prematurely.

Considerations

Step

1. You can either set a new scan request timeout value or reset a value that you previously set back to the default value.
   • If you want to set a new scan request timeout value, enter the following command:vscan options timeout set value

     value is a setting from 1 to 45 seconds. The recommended setting is between 8 and 12 seconds.

   • If you want to reset the scan request timeout value back to the default value of 10 seconds, enter the following command:vscan options timeout reset