Pollerd

Performs service assurance monitor checks to determine device availability.

Table 1. Pollerd configuration file overview
File Description Reload Event Restart Required

poller-configuration.xml

Contains service monitor configurations for service availability checks and global daemon configuration.
Restart is required when monitors are created or removed.
A reload event loads changed configuration parameters of existing monitors, but will not load new monitors.

Yes

Yes

response-graph.properties

RRD graph definitions for service response time measurements from monitors.

No

No

poll-outages.xml

Defines scheduled maintenance windows when polling should not occur. Can reload with uei.opennms.org/internal/schedOutagesChanged.

Yes

No

pollerd.events.xml

Event definitions for pollerd (for example, nodeLostService, interfaceDown, or nodeDown).

Table 2. Pollerd log file overview
File Description

pollerd.log

Logs relating to all service availability monitors and the pollerd daemon.