Unified Assurance Metric Ping Poller Basics

Overview

The Unified Assurance Metric Ping Poller is the common ICMP availability and latency collection poller. This poller is device oriented and uses the default Latency, Packet Loss, Ping Jitter and/or Ping Jitter Utilization metric types. This pages provides you with a basic overview. For more details refer to: Unified Assurance Metric Ping Poller

Ping Poller Setup

  1. Devices must exist in the Device Catalog for this application to be able to function. Devices can be created in several different ways:

    1. Using the Device Auto Discovery application. See the application documentation for additional information:

    2. Using the Manual Discovery UI:

    3. Manually entering all values using the Devices UI:

  2. Metrics must exist for the devices to be polled. Metrics can be created in several different ways:

    1. The default rules for the Metric Custom Poller Discovery Agent application will create the metrics for the Device instance:

    2. Using a polling policy to create metrics using whatever restrictions are needed. See the Polling Policies UI and Metric Poller Discovery Agent application documentation:

    3. Using the Polling Assignments UI to manually select which devices and instances are processed. See the related documentation:

  3. Enable the default Service, unless a specific configuration option is needed: