Data Collection Best Practices Setting Minimum Poll Interval
What is the minimum polling interval?
- Different implementations of a given counter can differ reasonably differ in refresh rate:
- When testing vendors products, determine if the counter refresh rate is acceptable for your deployment needs
- < 1 second, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, …
- Remember to calculate data storage requirements
- Careful! Check vendor hardware/software counter size underlying the SMI counter !!