Specifications

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The collection properties must be defined in the collection statement at the beginning of each collection
definition:
Table OIDs are defined in
<oid ... > statements, included between <table> and </table>
statements. OIDs from different tables must be put in separate
<table> statements. The label portion of
the statement appears in the MIB Collections Detail report, and as a heading in the exported data file.
Scalar OIDs are defined in
<oid ... > statements included between a <scalar> and </scalar>
statement.
The devices that should be polled are specified by IP address in <
scope ipAddress ...> statements,
one for each IP address.
The completed file must be named
collections.xml, and placed in the user/collections directory. The
Reload button in the MIB Poller Summary report will load the collections.xml specification, and begin
the collection process if the
initialState property specifies “running.”
Figure 171 on page 226 shows an example of an actual
collections.xml file.
The MIB Poller Summary
If a collection.xml file has been loaded, the MIB Poller Summary shows the names of the collections
defined in the xml file, along with their status (running or stopped). Figure 168 shows the summary for
a a set of three collections.
Figure 168: The MIB Poller Collection Summary
Table 7: Control properties for a MIB collection specification
name A name for the collection, between 1 – 255 characters.
pollingIntervalInSecs The interval at which Ridgeline should poll for the variables defined in this collection,
between 1 – 2147483 seconds.
initialState Whether this collection should start running immediately upon loading (values are
“running” and “stopped”)
saveData Whether the collected data should be saved to the Ridgeline database (“yes” or “no”)
maxPollsPerDevice The maximum number of poll result sets that should be saved in the database,
between 1 – 2147483647 polls.
deletePercentage The percentage of the saved data that should be deleted when the file reaches its
specified limit.