Short polling interval

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FrancWest
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Post by FrancWest »

Hi,

when using hostmonitor for monitoring some critical devices we've setup a polling interval of 5 seconds (mostly ping tests). Will have this a large impact on the overall performance of the network or is the overhead of ping tests very small ?

Franc.

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KS-Soft
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Post by KS-Soft »

It depends on your network performance and amount of tests. Usually ping test does not produce high traffic, and I think ICMP packets has lower priority than TCP packets. Also it depends what packet size do you use for the test, you can specify packet size on Ping/Trace page in the Options dialg.

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Alex
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