Creating An Dell Powerconnect Specific Policy (Group) In Awms; Basic Monitoring Configuration - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manual

Creating an Dell PowerConnect Specific Policy (Group) in
AWMS
It is prudent to establish an Dell PowerConnect Group within AWMS. During the discovery process
you will move new discovered controllers into this group.

Basic Monitoring Configuration

Navigate to the Groups>List page
Click Add.
Enter a Name that represents the Dell PowerConnect W infrastructure from a security,
geographical, or departmental perspective and click Add.
You will be redirected to Group > Basic page for the Group you just created. On this page you will
need to tweak a few Dell-specific settings.
Find the SNMP Polling Periods section of the page
Change Override Poll Period for Other Services to "Yes"
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Ensure User Data Polling Period is set to "10 minutes" Do not configure this interval lower
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than "5 minutes"
Figure 5 Group Polling Configuration
Note : Enabling the SNMP Rate Limiting for Monitored Devices option above adds a small delay between each SNMP
Get request, thus the actual polling interval is 12 minutes for 10 minute polling interval.
Change Device-to-Device Link Polling Period to "30 minutes"
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Change Rogue AP and Device Location Data Polling Period to "30 minutes".
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Find the Dell PowerConnect W section of the page
Configure the proper SNMP version for monitoring the Dell PowerConnect W
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infrastructure. The other options in this section are addressed later in this document or in
the Dell PowerConnect W Configuration Guide.
Click Save and Apply.
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Figure 6 Group SNMP Version for Monitoring