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Chapter 5: Device Configuration
4 Click Execute to perform the deletion. The selected device is removed from the
list of added devices.
5 Click Cancel to cancel the deletion.
Polling a Device
Polling is done automatically; no user interface exists. OmniVista SafeGuard Manager
checks to see if the connection to the device still exists and if the SNMP agent is running.
If the device cannot be reached, OmniVista SafeGuard Manager pings the device through
an OmniVista SafeGuard Manager Visualization Channel to ensure that the device is
reachable. If the ping fails, a device-unreachable alarm is generated and the device health
indicator is changed accordingly. OmniVista SafeGuard Manager continues to poll the
device and if the device responds to SNMP requests, the alarms are cleared and an ICC
connection is initiated. The device status shows the state of the device.
Synchronizing a Device
Synchronization is performed to ensure that you are viewing the latest data from the
device, to collect the latest device health and status statistics, and server statistics.
Synchronization can be performed in one of the following ways:
■ Manually—The administrator clicks Sync Device in the device table view which
synchronizes the device and port configuration data that could have changed
asynchronously through the CLI. The visualization data is not synchronized
because it is TCP based and OmniVista SafeGuard Manager client should already
have this data. For more information on how to manually synchronize a device,
see Manually Synchronizing a Device.
■ Automatically after a communication loss—If an OmniVista SafeGuard Manager
poll detects that communication was lost and then regained, a full
synchronization is automatically performed, which synchronizes both the
configuration and the visualization data.
■ Automatically after device reboot—When a device is rebooted, polling detects
that communication was lost and regained and a full synchronization is
automatically performed. OmniVista SafeGuard Manager detects the device
reboot based on the
sysUpTime of the device. A device reboot synchronizes both
the configuration and the visualization data. As the device clears the visualization
data on a reboot, the corresponding data is pushed to history.