Hi-Track Monitor's main activity is to poll the devices that are currently defined as active. Although Hi-Track monitors several different types of device the log entry to show the start of polling is standardized as follows:
14:06:35.760 [XY01] 56128 x00007309 DevName/DevLocation/DevIP Type-Model 'Id' x00002021
| 14:06:35.760 | is the standard timestamp |
| [XY01] | is the thread name used for this poll. |
| 56128 | is the numeric code used to show start of polling. |
| x00007309 | is the numeric reference for this device - devices may be defined multiple times, but the reference will be unique for any one definition. |
| DevName/DevLocation/DevIP | are the Device Name, Location and IP Address fields defined by the user for this device. |
| Type-Model | Shows the device type and model, as entered by the user, or decoded by Hi-Track. |
| 'Id' | is optional - and may be missing for some device types. It shows the name of the Security / Account ID used to poll this device. |
| x00002021 | shows the (bit-significant) status for this device, at the start of the poll |
A similar log entry is used to show that polling is complete:
14:06:36.149 [XY01] 56131 x00007309 End Additional PollStatus Time:389/582
| 14:06:35.760 | is the standard timestamp |
| [XY01] | is the thread name used for this poll. |
| 56131 | is the numeric code used to show end of polling. |
| x00007309 | is the numeric reference for this device. |
| End | is the first 'keyword' of this logtext - to show the poll is complete. |
| Additional | is any number of additional keywords - each device type has a set of keywords. |
| PollStatus | Status - may be Ok, CommFail (Communications Error) or DevFail (Device Error) |
| Time:389/2000 | is the time, in milliseconds for the poll. The first number (389 in this example) is the time taken for this poll, the second number (582 in this example) is the average of the last few polls for this device. This average will be used for scheduling future polls. |
There are three polling groups within Hi-Track monitor:
For each polling group, a maximum of 10 threads may be started.
For example, if the Storage group required five threads then those thread names would
be DP00, DP01, DP02, DP03, and DP04. Threads are started as the polling load increases
and terminate after approximately 15 minutes of inactivity.
Threads are started by a polling group control thread -
14:03:30.092 [SCTL] 56129 Created DevicePoll Thread [SP00]
here, the Switch poll-control thread SCTL creates the first SMNP poll thread SP00