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Scheduled Polling

Use scheduled polling in place of periodic polling. You define specific days and times for the polling schedule. Device groups also can support multiple polling schedules.

Different data collection methods cannot collect polled information from a device at the same time.

You may exclude device groups from Switch Port Management. The switches within the chosen group will not appear on the Devices page, and their switch ports will not count against the SPM interface license count, or in the Capacity Summary – Ports pane. Switch Port Management will not poll excluded device groups.

Device polling combines with NetMRI's configuration management features (the ability, for example, to quickly pull up and edit a given LAN or distribution switch's configuration files) to provide a workflow to respond to issues in the switched network quickly.

Multiple polling schedules can be applied per device group. For example, a user can schedule polling to run every Sunday at 3 AM and 6 PM.