Cisco Cisco Prime Network Control System Appliance Release Notes

Under Template Content, select a polling frequency from the Select Polling Frequency drop-down 
menu. 

Click Save As New Template. 

To deploy a custom SNMP polling template: 

On the Monitoring Template page, under My Templates, select your new template. 

Click Go to Deployment or choose Deploy > Monitoring Tasks. 

In the table that appears, select your template and click Deploy. 

In the Template Deployment dialog box that appears, select the devices or device groups on which to 
deploy your template. 

Click Submit. 

The NCS system starts polling the devices or devices groups for the attributes you defined in the 
template, at the frequency you specified. 

To stop polling, select a template and click Deactivate. To start polling again, select the template and 
click Activate.

To view polling results from a custom SNMP polling template:

Click Operate > Detailed Dashboards > Device.

Click the Settings icon, and go to Add Dashlet > Device Dashlet > Generic Dashlet. 

Click Add. 

In the new dashlet, click the Edit icon, and make entries for the following: 

Dashlet Title.

Refresh Dashlet.

Refresh Interval.

Time Filter Lock—If checked, a change in the overall time frame for the filters will not impact 
the specific time frame of the template. 

Time Frame—The time period for which the polling results must be displayed. 

Type—From the drop-down menu, choose to display polling results as a line chart or as a table. 

Template Name.

Attribute.