Configuring Environment Variables

You can configure environment variables to change the behavior of the agent.

About this task

Note: Environment variable setting will impact all the running agent instances in Linux platform.

Stop all the agent instances.
Locate the environment variable file.
- Linux platform:
  Locate the .vm.environment file by navigating to the agent folder.
  - Agent of 32-bit system: $CANDLEHOME/config
  - Agent of 64-bit system: $CANDLEHOME/config
Edit environment variable according to the requirement and save the file.
Example:
```
KV1_DATA_PROVIDER_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT=0
```
Note:
In the event of connection failure, if the environment variable KV1_DATA_PROVIDER_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT is not configured or set to 0, the agent will continuously attempt connection to data source every 30 seconds.

In the event of connection failure, user can limit the number of connection attempts by setting the environment variable KV1_DATA_PROVIDER_CONNECTION_RETRY_COUNT to a valid non-zero value.
Start the agent instance.