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Starting and Stopping Polling
When you open a network map, Whatsup Gold immediately starts automatic polling - it polls the devices continuously, starting each new pass after a specified time interval. If a map contains subnet maps, WhatsUp Gold also opens the subnet maps and starts polling. You can stop and start automatic polling at any time.
You can also start a single check of the network, in which case WhatsUp Gold makes a single pass through the devices in the active network map, polling each device. From Configure->Program Options->General, you can stop polling for ALL maps by clearing the Polling Master Switch.
To Initiate Automatic Polling
When you open a network map, Whatsup Gold immediately starts automatic polling on the map and any associated subnet maps.
To change the default settings for automatic polling, right-click a blank space on the map and select Properties. The map properties appear. Click General and set the number of seconds you want between checks (Poll Frequency), the number of seconds to wait before timeout (Default Timeout), and any other options you may want to change.
If polling is stopped, you can restart automatic polling of currently active devices by clicking the Stopwatch button in the main toolbar. WhatsUp Gold checks each device, and from the Statistics tab view, you can see it track the responses. After waiting the time set in the Poll Frequency, it makes a second polling pass through the devices and continues polling until you stop polling by clicking on the Stopwatch button again or by closing the map window.
WhatsUp Gold polls the devices in the order in which they were created in the network map. To view or change the polling sequence, from the View menu, select Dependencies, or you can click the Dependencies tab at the bottom of the map. For more information, see "Viewing and Changing Dependencies" .
To Stop Automatic Polling
To temporarily stop automatic polling, click the Stopwatch button in the main toolbar. To resume polling, click Stopwatch again.
Note: If you exit WhatsUp Gold during a poll, it may take up to 30 seconds for WhatsUp Gold to remove itself from memory. Until it is removed from memory, WhatsUp Gold appears in the Windows task list (when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del).
To Check a Device
To do an immediate poll of a device, right-click a device and select Check now from the pop-up menu.
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