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User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor
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Chapter 4 Modifying IPM Components
Working With Collectors
Step 8 In the Sample Interval field, enter the frequency (in seconds) in which data has to be collected by the
source router. The valid values are 10 to 3600 (1 hour). The default is 60 seconds.
Step 9 Click OK to complete the operation definition.
IPM adds the new or updated operation to the IPM database.
Deleting Operations
You can delete user-defined operations you no longer need.You can delete more than one operation at a
time.
Collectors that use the deleted operation continue to function correctly.
Note You cannot delete the default operations provided with IPM.
To delete an user-defined operation:
Step 1 From the Configuration window (Figure 2-3), select the operation or operations you want to delete.
Step 2 Click Delete.
The confirmation box appears,
Step 3 Click Yes.
The selected operations are deleted from the IPM database.
Working With Collectors
A collector is a definition of the source router, the target device, an operation, and the collector schedule.
To collect network performance statistics using IPM, you must define a collector.
Information about working with collectors is provided in the following subsections:
• Viewing a List of Defined Collectors
• Viewing a Collector State Summary
• Viewing Collector Properties
• Adding a New Collector
• Stopping Collectors
• Deleting Collectors