Configure Interface Data Collection
How to get here
- In Device view, right-click on a device, then select .
- In the Device Properties dialog, select .
- Select , then click .
Through this data stream, you can monitor and report on the SNMP interfaces on the current device. Data collected is displayed in the Interface Report.
- list. Select the interfaces you want to gather data on.
- or . Selects all interfaces in the list are selected automatically. Active interfaces collect data only for those interfaces that are currently in use.
- . Lets you select interface(s) from the Interface list.
- . Lets you select custom interface(s) from which to collect data. A custom dialog opens to select custom interface options.
- (Gigabit or faster). Select this option to collect data from all custom active high speed interfaces. This is the default selection.
- . Select this option to collect data from all custom active interfaces that contain the variable you enter. For example, if your network naming scheme includes a subgroup named customer, you would enter
customer
in the field to gather data from all interfaces for the subgroup that contain customer in the interface name. - . Select this option and choose the interface type to collect data from all custom active interfaces of that type.
- (minutes). Enter how often you want data to be collected for the selected item or items. This value represents the number of minutes between each collection.
Click to access Data Collection Advanced Settings.
Click to override the interface speed.
: You cannot change the speed for an interface until you have selected from the drop-down menu.
: If the Interface Utilization Performance Monitor was not used during Device Discovery, 64-bit high capacity counters are not used to poll interface traffic counters. You need to manually change the device's polling properties in the device properties to use high capacity counters.