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PingPollerd Intro

Overview

The Unified Assurance Metric Ping Poller is the common ICMP availability and latency collection poller. This poller is device oriented and uses the default Latency, Packet Loss, Ping Jitter and/or Ping Jitter Utilization metric types.

This page provides you with a basic overview. For more details refer to: Unified Assurance Metric Ping Poller

Ping Poller Setup

  1. Devices must exist in the Device Catalog for this application to be able to function. Devices can be created in several different ways:

    1. Using the "Device Auto Discovery" application. See the application documentation for additional information:

      Device Auto Discovery

    2. Using the "Manual Discovery" UI:

      Configuration -> Device Discovery -> Manual Discovery

    3. Manually entering all values using the "Devices" UI:

      Configuration -> Device Catalog -> Devices

  2. Metrics must exist for the devices to be polled. Metrics can be created in several different ways:

    1. The default rules for the "Metric Custom Poller Discovery Agent" application will create the metrics for the "Device" instance:

      Metric Custom Poller Discovery Agent

    2. Using a polling policy to create metrics using whatever restrictions are needed. See the "Polling Policies" UI and "Metric Poller Discovery Agent" application documentation:

      Configuration -> Metrics -> Polling Policies

      Metric Poller Discovery Agent

    3. Using the "Polling Assignments" UI to manually select which devices and instances are processed. See the related documentation:

      Configuration -> Metrics -> Polling Assignments

  3. Enable the default Service, unless a specific configuration option is needed:

    Configuration -> Broker Control -> Services