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what is a "poller" exactly?

freemen

I see on the Database Details page of my web site that I have a certain number of pollers. What is a poller exactly?

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mark_wiggans

You have Additional Pollers installed. Additional Pollers allow you to increase the monitoring capacity of your Orion installation by enabling multiple monitoring engines that work in parallel across your network.

freemen

Do you mean "custom MIB pollers"? I have only configured eight new custom pollers so where does the number 217 come from for pollers? Is this the number of out of the box pollers that run on my Orion polling engine?

qle

Oh ok, the number of pollers that you see from the Database Details page is the number of statistics pollers that you have currently configured. They collect various statistics from your network elements such as response time, volume capacity or current memory usage.

mark_wiggans

sorry, I was referring to Polling Engines, the number beside Pollers' represents th number of polls for status, statistics, etc.. per element, node, volumes and interfaces, as qle mentions...

freemen

That is what I thought was the case. So, does that mean that each poller collects data for a specific data type such as CPU Load or some other SNMP data?