Configuring Polling Of Monitored Agents - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - MONITOR Manual

2 Specify the number of seconds after which the Monitor Agent polls all monitored GroupWise
3 In the SNMP box, modify the SNMP settings as needed:
4 Click Apply Options to Subgroups if you want subgroups to inherit these settings.
5 Click OK to put the new SNMP settings into effect.
6 Make sure the GroupWise agents you want to monitor using SNMP are enabled for SNMP. See

59.4 Configuring Polling of Monitored Agents

By default, the Monitor Agent polls all monitored agents every five minutes. You can adjust the poll
cycle as needed.
At the Windows
1 Select the root agent group to set the poll cycle default for all monitored agents.
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agents for updated information using SNMP.
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.
Section 37.6.1, "Setting Up SNMP Services for the POA," on page 541
"Setting Up SNMP Services for the MTA," on page
followed for all GroupWise 5.x, 6.x, and 7 agents.
Monitor Agent server
or
Select any agent group to set the poll cycle for the agents in the selected group.
or
Select any agent to set the poll cycle for that individual agent.
668. The same instructions can be
console:
and Section 42.6.1,