There is already a startup option to ignore overrides from the Podping control account, but specifically for allowing some instances of Hivewriter to run with longer or shorter minimum periods between podpings, this should be overridden from the command line or the env.
2022-08-25T13:53:14+0000 | INFO | Configuration override from Podping Hive: hive_operation_period=15 max_url_list_bytes=8000 diagnostic_report_period=180 control_account='podping' control_account_check_period=180 test_nodes=('https://testnet.openhive.network',)
There is already a startup option to ignore overrides from the Podping control account, but specifically for allowing some instances of Hivewriter to run with longer or shorter minimum periods between podpings, this should be overridden from the command line or the env.