Thanks for the information:
I was under the impression that the SNMP configuration
values were for resources running SNMP. Will this also
change the values for Non-SNMP objects as well?
Thanks again,
Jan
--- Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM> wrote:
> Here's a repost of a good answer on this topic. FYI
> the retry and timout
> are configured in
> Options...SNMP
>
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> Subject: Answer to Netmon Polling Question
>
>
> Here's the new scoop for v5.1:
>
> Given: Timeout=2, Retry=5
> Initial Ping
> Wait 2 seconds, ping
> wait (2+1)=3 seconds, ping again
> wait ((2+1)+1)=4, ping again
> wait 2 seconds, ping last time
> Total time (wasted) = 11 seconds
>
> The scenario is:
> Initial ping,
> Wait time out value, ping
> Wait time out value plus 1, ping
> Keep waiting and adding 1, ping
> Last timeout will be original timeout
> Total number of pings sent will be the "Retry value"
> Retry of zero will be interpreted as "one ping only"
> (wasn't that a line
> from Red October).
>
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> Cordially,
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>
> Does anyone know how to change the amount of time
> NetView waits for a return ping before determining
> whether an outage exists?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Jan
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