Setting Polling Interval

A polling interval defines how often new data is collected. A new collect can be performed from once every second, to once in a day. Monitoring Studio allows you to set/modify the polling interval of each monitored object through the menu command: Set Polling Interval.

Polling intervals can be set for objects created by Monitoring Studio that collect data (files, processes, OS commands, SNMP polling etc.). By default, the polling interval is set to 2 minutes on all objects, which can be modified at any time.

To access this feature, right-click the Application/Container icon > KM commands > Set Polling Interval.

•	Collect every: X hour; X minutes; X seconds: Set the polling interval in hours/minutes/seconds. Or

•	Collect once a day at: x hour (24 hours); x minutes; x seconds: Here the values selected indicate the time of day. Example: 14; 30; 0 would mean that the polling is done only once a day at 2:30pm (14:30 hrs)

•	Collect once a week on <weekday> at: X hour; X minutes; X seconds: Here the values selected indicate the time of the selected weekday. Example: 14; 30; 0 would mean that the polling is done only once a week on <selected weekday> at 2:30pm (14:30 hrs)

The option to set polling intervals is not available for string searches, numeric values, text pre-processing, application/containers and SNMP trap instances, since either they do not have collectors, or as in the case of SNMP traps – have collectors that react to events.

Certain collectors are "common collectors". A common collector fetches data for all the objects of its class at the same time. For instance, for Processes, the collector fetches data from all processes at the same time.

The collection would be very resource-intensive (especially on UNIX) if the collector were to look for data one-by-one for each running process. This is why certain classes/objects have "common collectors". These objects are: Process, Windows Events, Windows Systems and File Systems.

If you set/modify the polling interval for an object that has a common collector (Process, Windows Events, Windows Services and File Systems) – the polling interval will be applicable to all objects of that particular class.

Therefore, if you set the polling interval to "collect every 5 minutes" for a winlog.exe process that you are monitoring; all the process objects you are monitoring will also be polled every 5 minutes, since the SW_Process class has a common collector.