Monitor Polling Engines feature requests

Question

1. Provide ability to balance pollers by custom property, nodeid in addiiton to the present nodename and ip address.

2. Provide a status area on the screen showing, at a minimum, a running count of nodes assigned to each poller as load balancing changes are made.  It would be even better to show interfaces and volumes as well.  Today, the only way of knowing how many nodes have been assigned to a poller is to restart the NPM services to get the numbers.  If they aren't distributed evenly or where you want them to be you have to stop the services again and repeat the cycle.  Very much a pain and time consuming especially since our NPM takes about 10 minutes to shutdown.

3.  As an extention of #2, it would be great to have the Recommended Maximum Node and Interface Status Polls and Maximum Statistics Collection values calculated and posted for each poller as is calculated by the Poles Per Second tuning tool.  This would also allow the ability to adjust the Polls Per Second values at the same time without having to start the pollers again only to have to stop/restart the services again (taking another outage) to adust them.

FormerMember · Answer

Oh okay.  I feel better now.  In regards to the dynamic capability, will it have the flexibility to configure individual "poller profiles" based on one or more text strings using nodename, DNS name, custom property, subnet or supernet?  If not, consider this a feature request.

FormerMember · Answer

Just to be clear, we would never ship something where you didn't have control.  Rather, it would be possible to set up a group of like pollers where a set of pollers would own a set of devices.  And you would always have the option to keep it the way it is.  Tie every node to a specific poller.

FormerMember · Answer

I concur with Brian.  At least at the moment, I'm not favorable to the "most available poller at any moment" concept not knowing or having control over which poller polls what devices.   Our pollers are not geographically dispersed but devices are assigned to pollers based on Organization.  I like the dynamic capability but would prefer to also have the flexibility to configure "poller profiles" based on one or more text strings using nodename, DNS name, custom property, subnet or supernet.  For instance, our network devices begin with a 3 or 4 letter organization identifier.  Our server names don't exactly follow the same convention but the organization identfier is embedded in the nodename.  It would be nice to be able to configure pollerA to poll all devices with subnet 10.10.x.x and nodenames with a 'BBB' prefix and pollerB to poll all devices with subnet 10.20.x.x, nodenames with a 'CCC' prefix and 'CCC' as an embedded text string.