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Hi all,

I have small doubt in Device Communication Manager(DCM) functionality

Suppose I have this default settings for a device:

• Poll Interval (sec): 300
• DCM Timeout (ms): 3000
• DCM Retry Count: 3

CA Spectrum polls each device every 5 minutes (300 seconds).

In each poll (SNMP get-request), CA Spectrum will wait for 3 seconds (3000 ms) for a response. If the device did not respond in 3 seconds, CA Spectrum will poll the device again, up to 3 times.If there is no response for SNMP get-request after 3 attempts, CA Spectrum will ping the device.

My question is what if  my device is not SNMP enabled and I want only to ping the device instead of waiting until device respond for SNMP get-request for 3 attempts.

Is there any option to do that.?  

Hello,

The DCM values also pertain to pingable devices.

So you can set those same options and it will work for ICMP pings that Spectrum will do to those models.

Thanks!

Matt

Thanks for the response Matt.

If I set same DCM options for ICMP devices then there won't be SNMP get-request attempts on that devices and instead of wasting time on SNMP get-request, ping will act directly on device.

This is what you mean?

Correct.  We do not send snmp requests to pingable models, only icmp.