Poll policy parameters

Use the poll policy to define the following parameters:

• Name of the poll policy
• Enablement or disablement: A poll policy must be enabled for polling to take place.
• Poll definitions: If interface-level filtering is required, the poll definition must contain certain settings. For each poll definition associated with the policy, you can specify whether to store polled data for historical reporting. If this parameter is set, the data is stored in the ncpolldata database schema.
  Note: A poll policy can have one or more poll definitions associated with it. This can be useful, for example, when you want to poll information that is specific to the device vendor. In such cases you need to set up a poll definition for each vendor (because each vendor might have different MIBs), but have only one policy with all poll definitions added to get the data from across your network.
  Restriction: Storage of polled data is not supported for the Cisco Remote Ping, the Juniper Remote Ping, and the Generic Threshold poll definitions.
• Polling interval
• Poller to which to assign the poll policy, if the multiple poller feature is set up.
• Scope. This contains:
  • Network views: Specify the network views containing the devices that you wish to poll.
  • Device filters: Refine the list of devices that you want to be polled by filtering against the values of fields in the mainNodeDetails table of the Network Connectivity and Inventory Model (NCIM) database. Multiple filters can be combined in a Boolean relationship.

Network Manager provides default poll policies and definitions. You might have other polls available if you have migrated poll settings during the installation process of Network Manager.