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Preference tabs
35
ForeSight 6100 EMS User Guide
5 • Edit menu reference
•
Interval setting
(see section
“Interval”
on page 35)
Figure 28. State Poller indicator
Note
There is also a State Poller indicator located in the opening screen of
the ForeSight 6100 EMS in the top right corner (see
figure 28
). State
Poller indications are defined in
table 4
.
Timeout
This value is the SNMP packets time-to-live (TTL). It is the number of seconds to wait for a packet before
considering it dead. Generally a setting of 1 or 2 seconds is appropriate, but for congested networks, higher val-
ues are recommended. The range is 1–1000 seconds; the default value is 1 second.
Retries
This value is the number of times for the ForeSight 6100 to retry SNMP polling if a response is not received
before timeout. The range is 0–1000 retries; the default value is 0 retries.
Cache
This setting is the number of milliseconds that a valid SNMP response will be cached in memory, which helps
prevent network flooding. The range is 0–1000 milliseconds; the default value is 0 milliseconds.
Interval
This setting is the amount of time in minutes that the 6100 EMS will wait between two successive polls to the
same box. The range is 0–1000 minutes; the default value is 2 minutes.
Note
The value assigned to Interval must be a higher number than the
result of Timeout multiplied by Retries values. In other words,
Interval > (Timeout X Retries)).
Table 4. State Poller indications
State
Action
Color
Icon
Polling
Sending SNMP GET requests
Yellow
Waiting
Waiting for SNMP GET responses
Green
Stopped
Doing nothing
Red