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.