Sean,
What/Where is this OFFPERIODS.CONF file which you mentioned?
I searched the books, scripts and directories and cannot find any reference to it.

Do you really need to see and poll those printers?
If you need to have them displayed in NetView topology, you could create a SmartSet for the printers.
Then set the polling interval to whatever time you want. i.e. once every 5 years...
or just unmanage them. 
If you don't need them displayed in NetView topology, the best solution would be to delete them and prevent their rediscovery with appropriate seedfile entries.

Don Davis

-----Original Message-----
From: O'Connor, Sean [mailto:Sean.O'Connor AT b-and-q.co DOT uk]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:53 AM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: [nv-l] Turning off polling - offperiods.conf

Hello All,

Sorry but another simple question. 

I would like to exclude a large amount of my network from availability
polling and then reduce the 20Minute cycle off polling to about 5Mins. 

This is mainly due to the 2000plus Network Printers that get switched off
and on regularly by our not so technical users.

I have started to add multiple lines into the OFFPERIODS.CONF is this the
best place?

and I need to monitor the servers, routers and switches more regularly.

Really just looking for some guidance

Regards

Sean O'Connor
Tel:      (02380) 25 x7228
Mob:    (07887) 521169

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