The OSPF SNMP Setting determines the polling intervals that are used by Network Protocol Manager for OSPF to monitor OSPF interfaces. Network Protocol Manager for OSPF monitors the interfaces by probing the SNMP tables on the OSPF-enabled devices.

OSPF SNMP Setting parameters and their values lists the OSPF SNMP Setting parameters.

Table 1. OSPF SNMP Setting parameters and their values

Parameter

Values

Description

AnalysisMode

ENABLEDDISABLED

Default: ENABLED

Enables or disables:

  1. The Network Protocol Manager for OSPF polling of OSPF interface (OSPFInterface, OSPFVirtualInterface) data.

  2. The subsequent analysis of the polled data to determine the status of OSPF sessions.

PollingInterval

30 to 3600 seconds

Default: 240 seconds

Sets the time between successive polls.

Retries

0 to 10 retries

Default: 3

Sets the number of retry polls to perform when the initial poll fails.

Timeout

10 to 10000 milliseconds

Default: 700 milliseconds

Sets the amount of time to wait for the poll response before the first poll request times out. The timeout value doubles for each successive retry.

For Timeout=700 msec (0.7 sec) and Retries=3:

  • 0.7 seconds for first retry

  • 1.4 seconds for second retry

  • 2.8 seconds for third retry