collection statistics

I use the default of 10 minutes on most of our non-critical interfaces. Critical interfaces on core switches and routers I set to 2-5 minutes.

I wish there was a way to make bulk interface statistic polling changes rather than having to change each individual interface. I have found that you can go into the Custom Property Editor and go into settings and enable "Statcollection". Then you can get a nice view of what all your interfaces are set to poll at.

I wish there was a way to make bulk interface statistic polling changes rather than having to change each individual interface.

What version are you running?  You can do exactly what you're asking for in NPM v9.1 in the web console.

Hi Denny

could you please let me know how to change the statistic pollings for a bulk of interfaces in Ver. 9?

Thanks

Foroozan

foroozan,

I nthe web console, if you go to Admin and Node Management at the top there is an option called Show and in the drop down select interface and select all the interfaces you wish to update and click Edit Properties.  Once you receive this dialog check the option for polling and you can change it here and click submit

And just to be clear, this isn't possible in 9.0, but it is possible in 9.1.  In 9.1, you can set web node management to show only interfaces.

Primom,

We use 300/300/300 (seconds) for polling nodes/interfaces/volumes.

We then use 5/5/15 (minutes) for statistics collection on nodes/interfaces/volumes.

We do this to remain 95th percentile compliant of 5 minute values.

This has worked to great benefit for us, and has remained unchanged for a year.

thank you, all your posts have been most useful. Keep em coming!!

Has anyone noticed any slowness or performance issues after lowering the statics collection to 5 minutes or less.  I'd like to change my setting from the default (10 minutes), but do not want to sacrifice alot of performance from it polling devices more often.

After making your change to 5 minutes, I would keep an eye on your polling completion %, if it drops below 99% you are going to see gaps in collection data.

I like to have "Polling Engines Status" on my main page so I can keep a close eye on how its doing.

Also here is a nice little query you can run to mass update interfaces. It may need some tweeking to fit your environment. run it with the Orion services stopped.

Select a.sysname,b.interfacename,a.ctscontact,b.StatCollection from nodes a, interfaces b where a.nodeid = b.nodeid and a.contact = '        '

Hope this is helpful

For use we had to breakdown by device type 2\5\10\15 for statistics and polling for critical, high, medium and low devices.  Fortunately we can manage this by name and have a set of batch jobs we can run which will re-apply the settings if somebody adds a new device and forgets to change the timing.

We had to turn our polling way down and I'm sure that most of this is because our polling process is slow.  Our Orion server is in Europe but 1/2 of our nodes are in the Americas and APAC so the delay hurts quite a bit.