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Setting the Device Manager properties

Device Manager communicates with a Device Manager switch using SNMP. The Device Manager Properties dialog box allows you to configure important communication parameters such as the polling interval, time out, and retry count. You can set these parameters before you open a device to manage. You can also access the Properties dialog box at any other time while Device Manager is running.

To open the Properties dialog box:

From the initial Device Manager window, choose Device > Properties.
The Properties dialog box opens.


Area Item Description
Polling
Status Interval
Intervals at which status information is gathered (default is 20 seconds). For a full stack, set this to 60 seconds.

(If IP traps, Status Interval secs)
Intervals at which status information is gathered (default is 60 seconds) if a trap is detected.

Hotswap Detect every
Intervals at which Device Manager polls for module information. The default is 60 seconds.

Enable
Enables or disables periodic polling of the device for updated status. If this is disabled (not checked), the chassis status is updated only when you click the Refresh button.
SNMP
Retry Count
Number of times Device Manager sends the same polling request if a response is not returned to Device Manager.

Timeout
Length of each retry of each polling waiting period. When you access the device through a slow link, you may want to increase the time out interval and then change the Retransmission Strategy to super linear.

Trace
Enables or disables SNMP tracing. When selected (checked), SNMP PDU trace messages are displayed in the Device > Log dialog box.

Register for Traps
Configures whether Device Manager should automatically register to receive traps when Device Manager is launched against a switch.

Max Traps in Log
Number of traps that may exist in the trap log. Default is 500.

Trap Port
Configures the UDP port that Device Manager will listen on to receive SNMP traps.

Confirm row deletion
If this is checked, Device Manager displays a confirmation dialog box before deleting a row.

See also


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