Global Switch Port Management Polling Settings

Note

For NetMRI appliances with a Switch Port Management license, polling offers some flexibility. For NetMRI installations, switchport connectivity polling rates remain at the default rate of 90 minutes, but this value can be changed. In all cases, you are limited to fewer than 30 minutes per polling cycle.

NetMRI carries out Switch Port Management polling after discovering the relevant devices and adds them to a Switch Port Management device license count. NetMRI offers several polling options from the Settings icon > Setup > Collection and Groups > Switch Port Management side tab:

Port Control Preference: You can specify SNMP or CLI as the polling protocol preferred by Switch Port Manager as the primary method of information gathering.
Periodic Polling: Define regular polling time periods. Choose a polling interval of 30 or more Minutes or 1-24 Hours.
Scheduled Polling: Schedule recurrent polling based on hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly time periods. Choosing this option, an Add New Schedule editor appears; click the Edit icon to make scheduling changes. Choose a Recurrence Pattern of Once, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. In all cases, you must choose an Execution Time.
Completely disable NetMRI from performing switch port polling by selecting Disable Switch Port Polling.
Click the Poll Now button to immediately begin polling all switch and switch-router devices in the managed network.

For more information on the use of switch device polling and related topics, see Switch Port Management.

For information on the Groups tab and its associated functions, see Creating Device Groups.