Configuring The Monitor Agent For Snmp - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

6 Select Apply options to subgroups if you want subgroups to inherit these settings.
7 Click OK to put the specified poll cycle into effect.

63.3.2 Configuring the Monitor Agent for SNMP

The Monitor Agent must use SNMP to communicate with GroupWise agents that date from earlier
than the GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack. You can customize how the Monitor Agent
communicates with such older agents and how it communicates with SNMP monitoring and
management programs.
At the Windows
1 Click Configuration > Poll Settings.
or
On Linux, at the
the SNMP Settings section.
2 Specify the number of seconds after which the Monitor Agent polls all monitored GroupWise
agents for updated information using SNMP.
3 In the SNMP box, modify the SNMP settings as needed:
Time-out: Specify the number of seconds the Monitor Agent should wait for a response from
servers where GroupWise agents run.
Number of Retries: Specify how often the Monitor Agent should try to contact the servers
where GroupWise agents run.
SNMP Community Strings: Provide a comma-delimited list of community strings required to
access the servers where GroupWise agents run.
Force polling through SNMP: Select this option to use SNMP polling instead of the default
of XML polling when contacting servers where agents in the group run.
4 Click Apply options to subgroups if you want subgroups to inherit these settings.
1016 GroupWise 8 Administration Guide
Monitor Agent server console:
Monitor Agent Web console, click Preferences > Setup, then scroll down to