After you create a data collector, you can understand the data collection status based on the following indicators available on the Administration > Data Collectors page. You can correlate this information to conclude the data collection status.
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Data collector polling status | Polling status can be of the following types:
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Data collector state | Information about whether the data collector was started or stopped, and whether the data collection is in-progress or has completed. This information is available under the State column. |
This topic contains the following information:
The overall polling status for the data collector in the Poll Status column. This status is displayed based on the status of the last five polls available in the collection status history.
Status exception
The Receive over TCP/UDP data collector displays the overall polling status based on the most recent poll status rather than the last five polls in the collection status history. The criteria for displaying the status is different because this data collector is different in the following ways:
Usually the status displays green or red, which means polling was successful or unsuccessful. If no data is received in the last one hour from the time when the last poll was made, the status displays yellow, which means few polls were unsuccessful.
The following table provides a description of the various kinds of polling status that can be displayed.
Polling status | Icon | Description |
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Polling is successful | Polling for a data collector was consecutively successful for the last five polls. | |
Few polls are unsuccessful | Displayed in one of the following scenarios:
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Many polls are unsuccessful | Displayed in one of the following scenarios:
Note: If the status displayed is red (unsuccessful polling) and the next data collection happens successfully, then the status changes to green (successful polling). | |
Collection Agent (or Collection Station) is unavailable | ||
Polling is suspended | Collection Agent used for creating the data collector is not enabled on the Administration > Hosts tab. | |
Polling status unavailable | No polling information is available. This can happen in the following scenarios:
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The individual polling status of a data collector can be viewed in the collection status history. The collection status history displays details about the last ten polls for a data collector. To view this information, you need to select a data collector and click Collection Status History.
Note
The overall status is not available for the Upload File type of data collector. This is because this data collector is expected to do a one-time data collection of the uploaded file.
The collection status history provides a summary report with the following details:
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Status | Indicates the individual polling status, as follows: | |
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Polling completed successfully. | ||
Polling failed. | ||
Poll Time | Date and time when the poll was made. | |
Description | Provides the following details:
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Success | Count of records that are indexed successfully. | |
Rejected | Count of records that are rejected. Click the count of records to see the list of actual records that are rejected. Reasons for occurrence:
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Ignored | Count of records that are ignored. Click the count of records to see the list of actual records that are ignored. Reason for occurrence: When the timezone specified in the data collector and the timezone of the target host are not in sync. Therefore, some data might fall outside the specified data retention period. | |
More Info | Click More Info at the end of the dialog box to see additional details of the ten polls displayed in the collection status history. The following image describes the various details displayed for each of the polls.
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