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Polling at different intervals?

I think I already know the answer but wants to make sure. Can you tell the polling engine no to poll all the devices at the same time? Let me clarify, Can I group all my devices into 2 or 3 different groups and then tell the polling engine to poll those at different intervals? i.e. poll group 1 every XX, group 2 every XX, and so on. I'm looking at this question from a network performance point of view, not the solarwinds server.

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dodo123

think you can set multiple node polling from manage nodes select them and edit them all change the polling frequency.

so live 5mins

preprod 10min

test 15min

But i don't think you can tell them when to poll as you could probably bring the system to a halt if you could.

Why do you want to do this?

Antonio

Cause I have a large flat network where the switches (L2) are not able to manage all the polling at once and eventually their buffers start dropping packages. without going into details, I can not afford packet drops at all since every packet is of the most importance.

dodo123

No worries so you want your polling spread out?

the system should be handling that on its own if you polll all the devices at the same time wouldn’t that be worse or am I getting the wrong end of the stick.

dodo123

Additional polling engines may help also using agents everywhere.

Stay away from wmi I guess.

Antonio

Hmm, my understanding has always been that polling is done at once system wide. I'm not aware that it is spread out, which is what i'm trying to do.