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Enabling and Disabling Polling

You can enable or disable polling for a particular poll definition.

1. In TIP, click Administration → Network → Network Polling.

The Network Polling pane is displayed with a list of poll policies and poll definitions, on the right-

hand side.

2. Double-click the poll definition for which you want to enable or disable the polling.

The Poll Policy Editor window is displayed

3. In the Poll Policy Properties tab, select the Poll Enabled check box to enable polling for the poll

definition. To disable the polling, clear the check box.

Configuring Polling Parameters on Systems Running

Linux

To configure the polling parameters for Dell servers running ESXi, Dell Connections License Manager

(DCLM), License Synch, Dell PowerVault NX Storage Arrays, Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays, Dell

PowerVault MD Storage Arrays, and S-Series switches, customize the duration of tasks in Crontab.

1. Edit the cron jobs in an editor by running the command: crontab -e.

2. Select a task and modify the following parameters as required.

For example:

• 0 */4 * * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl ESXi_POLL $NCHOME

• 0 */4 * * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl ESXi_WORKSTATION_POLL $NCHOME

• 0 */4 * * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl DCLM_POLL $NCHOME

• 0 0 */5 * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl LICENSE_SYNCH $NCHOME

• 0 */4 * * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl DELL_S_SERIES_POLL $NCHOME

• 0 */4 * * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl EQL_POLL $NCHOME

• 0 */4 * * * . $NCHOME/env.sh;$NCHOME/precision/perl/bin/perl $NCHOME/

precision/dell/scripts/executeTask.pl MDARRAY_POLL $NCHOME

0 */4 * * *

Minute (0–59) Hour (0–23) Day of Month (1–31) Month (1–12) Day of Week

(0–6),

0=Sunday

To repeat every 10

minutes, you can

change it to */10

/4 — Implies a

repeat pattern of

every four hours.

For License

Synch, /5 implies

that the repeat

pattern is every five

days at midnight.

3. For servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL), restart the cron service by running the

command: service crond restart.

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