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Polling interval for Custom Pollers

evalUser over 16 years ago

Is there are mechanism to configure the polling interval for a Custom Poller when the OIDs are polled for their values? If yes, how can this be done?

Thanks in advance!

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ttundra277 over 12 years ago in reply to FormerMember +1

This is a must have for us. We have numerous custom pollers setup where we would like to poll on much greater intervals than the interval setup for a device or interface and we also have a few custom…

0 mark_wiggans over 16 years ago

NPM System Manager-> Settings-> Polling
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0 evalUser over 16 years ago in reply to mark_wiggans

Thanks Mark.
1) What is the difference between the "Polling" and "Statistics" collection? When I use a Custom Poller to gather the statistics for private MIBs, is that collection interval controlled by the "Polling" or the "Statistics" tab?
2) Is there an ability to control the collection interval at the Custom Poller group level instead of at the Node level?

Thanks in advance!
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0 mark_wiggans over 16 years ago in reply to evalUser

1) Network polling checks the availability status and response time of resources on your network. It also determines network latency and packet loss.
Statistics collection provides a check of all monitored nodes, interfaces, and volumes, and it is normally done less frequently than polling.
-Use the Statistics tab to adjust the settings-

2) If you want your new settings to apply to all current network resources: click Apply these settings to All
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0 evalUser over 16 years ago in reply to mark_wiggans

1) So, for Custom Pollers, I should use the Statistics tab - right?
2) I want to have a different collection interval for different Custom Pollers (example, different intervals for different private MIBs). For example, if I have 1 custom Poller for Interface statistics and second custom poller for certain proprietary counters defined in a private enterprise MIB, I want to have different polling/collection intervals for the 2 customer pollers.
And, I want each of the the Custom Pollers settings to be applicable to all nodes.
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0 mark_wiggans over 16 years ago in reply to evalUser

The custom pollers are tied to the same intervals that are set for the Nodes and Interfaces they are assigned to.
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0 dperdue over 16 years ago in reply to evalUser

evalUser - there ais currently no way to control polling interval at the custom mib poller level. You can only control this at the node level.
We will look to add this ability to a future release.
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0 ttundra277 over 14 years ago in reply to dperdue

this is an old post but I am curious if this issue has been addressed. Can we set different polling intervals for different universal device pollers?
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0 bshopp over 14 years ago in reply to ttundra277

No, this is still an open enhancement request we have in the system
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0 netwiz2007 over 13 years ago in reply to bshopp

Just wondering if this is still being looked at? I would really not want to drop the global polling value for all the nodes when all I need is the custom poller to be dropped to 1 minute for 5 nodes that it is applied to.
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0 bshopp over 13 years ago in reply to netwiz2007

This is something we have in our system and something we want to do, just a matter of time and priority.
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