Consultant Status - Field Help
Current Statistics
- Consultant Identifier
- The user-defined name which identifies the consultant.
- Switch IP Address
- The address which the consultant uses to communicate with the switch.
The switch ip address must be in dotted-decimal format.
- Read Community name
- The community name used in SNMP get requests with the Nortel Alteon Switch. The default is
public.
- Write Community name
- The community name used in the SNMP set requests with the Nortel Alteon Switch. The default is
private.
- Consultant Status
- Status for the consultant. Indicates whether the consultant is currently calculating weights
for the servers on the switch.
- Binary Log Status
- Status for the binary log setting, whether or not information is being stored in the
binary log. The default is stopped.
Configuration Settings
Edit any of the values on the Configuration Settings
tab, then click Update Configuration.
- Sleep time between cycles (seconds)
- The time during which the consultant sleeps in between updating weights. The valid range for
sleep time is between 0 and 2,147,460 seconds. The default is 7 seconds.
- Sensitivity
- Indicates the amount of change that needs to take place between the old and new weights in order for
the weight to change. (Difference between new weight and old weight has to be greater than
the sensitivity % in order for the weight to change.) The default is 5.
- Binary Log Retention (hours)
- The time, in hours, that log files are kept. Log files older than the retention
hours specified are deleted. The default value is 24 hours.
- Binary Log Interval (seconds)
- How often, in seconds, information is written to the binary logs.
The binary logging feature allows service information to be stored in binary log
files for each service defined in the configuration.
The information is written to the logs only when the specified
log interval seconds elapse since the last record was written to the
log. The default binary logging interval is 60.
- Logging level
- The level at which the connection metric logs its activities.
The range is None to Verbose, with None meaning nothing is logged and Verbose meaning everything is
logged.
The default is Verbose.
Select from the following values:
- None
- Minimal
- Basic
- Moderate
- Advanced
- Verbose
- Log size
- The number of bytes logged in the consultant log. The default is 1048576.
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