Setting how often active monitors are polled
By default, active monitors are polled based on the time interval established in for each device. If you want an active monitor to be polled more or less frequently than the device's other active monitors, you can change the polling interval exclusively for that monitor.
To change the poll interval for a single device:
- Double-click on the device you want to modify. Device Properties for that device appears.
- Click Passive Monitors to view that section of Device Properties.
- Select the active monitor you want to modify.
- Click to view the Active Monitor Properties for that monitor.
- Click Polling to view that section of the monitor properties.
- Click to view Active Monitors Advanced Properties.
- Select to activate the box.
- Enter the poll frequency (in seconds) you want for that monitor.
- Click to save the changes.
To change the poll interval for multiple devices:
- Select the devices and device groups you want to modify.
- Right-click on one of the selected devices and select from the right-click menu.
- On the Bulk Field Change: Active Monitor Properties dialog, select the active monitor type from the pull-down menu. This list is populated by all active monitors found on the selected devices. Some devices may not have all of the monitors in this list.
- In the drop-down, select Yes to activate the box.
- Enter the poll frequency (in seconds) you want for that monitor on those devices.
- Click to save the changes.
: If a selected device does not currently have the active monitor associated to it, no modifications will be made to that device. Only devices that have the active monitor will be changed.