Saving Polling Data - Paradyne OPENLANE User Manual

Creating Service Level Management Reports
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Saving Polling Data

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Procedure
To enable Data Collections for a specific customer:
1. Access the SLM Report Administration page and specify Admin for your
Customer ID.
2. Click on Data Collection. The Data Collection Administration page appears.
3. Select the device(s) you want to configure for the customer.
You can enter an IP address for a single device or specify that all of the
devices for specific customer be configured for data collection.
4. If you are configuring all devices for a particular customer, continue to the
next step.
If you selected a single device, it will display the parameters that are
configured for the device.
A device can be assigned to multiple customers or have default parameters
set. It is possible that the device you selected may have parameters already
configured. If parameters are configured, the values are displayed.
5. Enter and/or modify parameters for the device(s).
The parameters to configure include enabling polling and specifying a polling
interval, FTP login, and password. Refer to Saving Polling Data.
6. Select Save for this Customer or Save for this Device to set these options.
A dialog is displayed to indicate when the operation is complete.
If you chose to set up devices individually, you must repeat these steps for
each device assigned to a customer.
If the User History Poller is running, all new devices you enable for Data
Collection are automatically discovered and polling of these devices for
information begins within five minutes.
In the previous procedure, Data Collection Administration provides a field:
Saved polled data for ___ polling days.
This field is used to specify the number of polling days that the User History
Poller will retain data. A "polling day" is not necessarily the same as a calendar
day. A "polling day" represents a day in which at least one poll occurred.
For example, if the field is set to 90 "polling days," then it takes 90 days worth of
actual polled data to fill the allotted space. If the polling is stopped, then restarted
later, it may take more than the 90 calendar days to fill the allotted space.
The User History Poller begins writing over the oldest data so the most recent
data is always available. This field should be set based on how far back in time
for which you plan to run reports. In the 90-day example above, with the poller
continuously running, a report run with a report period greater than 90 days ago
would not have data for that report period. The report would show NA and/or
"Data Missing" for the dates earlier than 90 days.
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