Hi Everyone.
When using various Protocols on a daily basis, it is difficult to know when each parameter is being polled.
Some protocols have parameters that are not polled until one hour has passed since the last poll.
This is very inconvenient for operators who cannot see the Dataminer logs in detail.
Is it possible to list the polling cycle for each parameter ID somewhere?
Just stating the last polling time would be helpful.
*I understand that some very limited protocol parameters are made that way.
Of course I know that there is a Timebase.
But this value is only a relative multiplier and does not indicate the absolute value of time.
I would like the Dataminer software to record the polling time on the Dataminer software side, independent of the protocol.
It would be very easy to use if we could go one step further and modify the polling cycle for each specific parameter for each element above a certain authority.
In the Protocols folder of a DataMiner agent, next to a specific Protocol.xml, you should already find a file named Polling.xml which will contain a list of all parameters and their polling interval that DataMiner could find out after some basic processing of the timers in the protocol.
More advanced analysis like a parameter set through a QAction which fires e.g. every 1 minute is currently not supported yet.
Below you can find an example of how the content of this file looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Protocol>
<Params>
<Param id="1" pollingInterval="60000" />
<Param id="2" pollingInterval="120000" />
</Params>
</Protocol>
The pollingInterval attribute is specified in milliseconds.
As far as I'm aware, this information is currently only used in the alarm template editor of DataMiner Cube. More specifically to give a warning to the user when alarm hysteresis is configured on a parameter with a time that is lower than the polling interval of that parameter.
This is described in Configuring alarm hysteresis in an alarm template.
It might be valuable to bring the information that is already available today more to the foreground in the DataMiner clients, e.g. below the last change property per parameter.
Only administrators or users with similar privileges can view the file.
We need a system that can be viewed by operators who do not have more knowledge of XML.