diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 9943e82..5462403 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
 option('instance-id-expiration-interval', type: 'integer', min: 5, max: 6, description: 'Instance ID expiration interval in seconds', value: 5)
 # Default response-time-out set to 2 seconds to facilitate a minimum retry of the request of 2.
 option('response-time-out', type: 'integer', min: 300, max: 4800, description: 'The amount of time a requester has to wait for a response message in milliseconds', value: 2000)
+
+option('heartbeat-timeout-seconds', type: 'integer', description: ' The amount of time host waits for BMC to respond to pings from host, as part of host-bmc surveillance', value: 120)