Removing a poller

If a poller is not being used to monitor the network, you can remove the poller from the monitoring system.

About this task

To remove a poller from the monitoring system, deregister the poller from the command line. The poller is removed from the Monitor Policy editor.

Complete the following tasks to remove a poller from the monitoring system.

Procedure

  1. Before removing the poller, edit each active policy associated with the poller that you want to remove. From the Monitor Policy Editor, edit the policies to use another valid poller.
  2. Stop all running Network Manager processes.
  3. From the Network Manager server, run the following command. 
    ncp_poller -deregister -domain [domain_name] -name [poller_name]
    If there are no active policies associated with the poller, the poller is deregistered. If there are still active policies associated with the poller, the script does not deregister the poller.
  4. If there are still active policies associated with the poller, either assign the policies to another poller, or run the script again using the - force option. If you run the script using the - force option, any poll policies associated with the poller are also deleted.
  5. Edit the CtrlServices.cfg file to remove or uncomment the ncp_poller entry for the poller that you removed.
  6. Restart the Network Manager processes.