Poll definition parameters

Use this information to understand the parameters of a poll definition.

Network Manager provides default poll policies and definitions.

Use the poll definition to define the following parameters:

• Poll definition name
• Poll definition type: This determines the polling mechanism that the poll definition uses. The following polling mechanisms are used:
  • Ping polling
  • SNMP polling
• Severity level of the event that is generated
  Important: The severity level must correspond to a valid severity level as defined in IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
• Short description of the poll definition.
• Basic threshold poll definition type only: data label. A label used to associate the data collected by a basic threshold poll definition with a report. When defining the report, you pick the data to present in the report using the data label. This enables a report to present data tagged with the same data label but collected by more than one poll definition.
• Basic threshold poll definition type only: data units. Specify the data units for this poll definition. The appropriate data unit varies depending on the type of data in the poll definition. Here are some typical data types and the data units that correspond to those data types, together with examples from the default Network Manager poll definitions:

  Counts

  Poll definitions where the value is a count of some item. Examples include:

  • dot3StatsAlignmentErrors
  • ifInDiscards
  • ifInErrors

  For this type of poll definition specify a data unit of #.

  Percentages

  Poll definitions where the value is a percentage. Examples include:

  • cpuBusyPoll
  • ciscoCPUTotal5min

  For this type of poll definition specify a data unit of %.

  Specific units of measure

  Poll definitions where the value is a specify unit of measure. Examples include:

  • memoryPoll

  For this type of poll definition specify the appropriate unit of measure. For example, in the case of memoryPoll the appropriate unit of measure is bytes.

• Scope of the poll definition: optionally which device class and interface filters to apply.
• Threshold poll definitions only: the threshold settings for generating and clearing an alert.