HP Netsight manual Chassis Manager Settings, Event Log Options, Poll Rate

Overview of NetSight Element Manager

Chassis Manager Settings

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Event Log Options

The Chassis Manager settings let you establish how the Chassis Manager and SmartSwitch/Matrix Chassis View applications poll a monitored device. There are two settings which you can configure:

Poll Rate

The interval, in seconds, at which the Chassis Manager or SmartSwitch/Matrix Chassis View will poll a device to check whether it is alive on the network (i.e., has a green contact status).

To change the poll rate:

1.Click in the Poll Rate text field, and type in the interval to be used when Chassis Manager polls a device for its contact status. The range is from 5 to 9999 seconds; the default is 30 seconds.

Retries

The Retries field determines the number of polls that the Chassis Manager or SmartSwitch/Matrix Chassis View will issue to a device after the first failed poll before declaring a lost contact state. To change the Retries setting:

1.Click in the Retries text field, and type in the number of polls which must fail (after the initial poll failure) before Chassis Manager declares that contact is unavailable. The range is from 0 to 10 retries; the default is 2 retries.

You can also edit the ctron.ini file (located in the /windows directory for Windows 2000, or in the /winnt directory for Windows NT) to specify the interval between retry polls from Chassis Manager or the SmartSwitch Chassis View. Alter the BackgroundTrysInterval=X line, where X is the number of seconds between retry polls. The default setting is 15 seconds.

The Event Log options (Figure 2-13) allow you to set the size of the alarm and event service’s event cache (which stores trap and event information). The event cache is a memory-mapped data file that is activated when NetSight Element Manager’s alarm and event service initializes. All traps and events that are received are uniquely identified and stored in this file. The file is a wrap-around buffer which overwrites the earliest entries with each new incoming trap or event. Refer to your Alarm and Event Handling User’s Guide, included in your documentation set, for more information about the event cache and other aspects of alarm and event handling.

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