diff --git a/agent/src/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java b/agent/src/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java
index 67b7b2fa4ad..78430aee0b5 100644
--- a/agent/src/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java
+++ b/agent/src/com/cloud/agent/AgentShell.java
@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ public class AgentShell implements IAgentShell, Daemon {
         }
 
         _workers = NumberUtils.toInt(workers, 5);
+        if (_workers <= 0) {
+            _workers = 5;
+        }
 
         if (host == null) {
             host = getProperty(null, "host");
diff --git a/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java b/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java
index cc7eb253bb0..e8857f16a00 100755
--- a/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java
+++ b/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java
@@ -1051,6 +1051,8 @@ public class SecondaryStorageManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements Secondar
 
         buf.append(" guid=").append(profile.getVirtualMachine().getHostName());
 
+        buf.append(" workers=").append(_configDao.getValue("workers"));
+
         if (_configDao.isPremium()) {
             s_logger.debug("VmWare hypervisor configured, telling the ssvm to load the PremiumSecondaryStorageResource");
             buf.append(" resource=com.cloud.storage.resource.PremiumSecondaryStorageResource");