Understanding polling groups and settings

Using the Polling and Thresholds Console, you can customize ICMP and SNMP polling for the IP Availability Manager and IP Performance Manager by modifying default polling groups, or by creating new polling groups. The polling groups periodically poll the managed IP devices to collect availability and performance data.

The IP Availability Manager and IP Performance Manager uses the settings in a polling group to assign polling parameters to a particular group of managed devices. From a polling and threshold perspective, a setting is a collection of parameters that are common to a particular type of analysis; for example, connectivity polling or environment polling.