Consultant Status - Field Help

Current Statistics

Switch Identifier
The user-defined name which identifies the switch.

Switch Address
The address to which the consultant communicates with the switch. The switch IP address can be either the dotted-decimal IP address or the host name of the machine.

Read/Write Community name
The community name used in SNMP get and set communications with the Cisco CSS Switch.

Consultant Status
Status for the consultant. Indicates whether the consultant is consulting for the switch. The default is stopped.

Binary Log Status
Status for the binary log setting. 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.)

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.