User's Manual

Inventory Schedule Settings

Field Description

Enable Inventory Select to schedule inventory.

Configure Global Inventory Polling Interval Set the frequency of the inventory in weekly or daily

intervals.

NOTE: OpenManage Essentials performs inventory

only on devices that have already been discovered.

• Every Week On—Specify the day or days of the

week that you want to schedule the inventory and

the time that you want it to begin.

• Every <n> Days <n> Hours interval—Specify the

intervals between inventory cycles. The maximum

discovery interval is 365 days and 23 hours.

Inventory Polling Speed Set the amount of resources available for accelerating the

inventory poll speed. The faster you set the inventory poll

speed, the more resources are required, but less time is

required to perform the inventory.

After changing the speed, OpenManage Essentials may

take several minutes to adjust to the new speed.

Status Schedule

Use this window to specify the default status polling settings for OpenManage Essentials. Status polling performs a

health and power check for all discovered devices. For example, this poll determines if discovered devices are healthy

or powered down.

Status Configuration Settings

Field Description

Enable OnDemand Poll Select to query the global status of the device when an

alert is received from the device.

NOTE: If a large number of alerts are received,

multiple OnDemand polls are queued up and it may

affect the system performance. In this scenario, it is

recommended to turn off OnDemand poll and enable

the regular status poll interval to retrieve the health

status of managed devices.

If OnDemand poll is disabled, the device status only

updates on the normal status poll.

Enable Status Polling Select to schedule device status polling.

Device Status Interval Set frequency of the device status poll in intervals of days,

hours, and minutes. The status polling does not begin until

the previous polling has completed.

Days—Specify the number of days between device status

polling.

Hours—Specify the number of hours between device

status polling cycles.