bring back longer polling intervals (e.g. 12 hrs, 24 hrs)
We used to have ability to poll a lot longer than the current times.
Please bring back polling intervals of 6 hours 12 hours 1 day.
Forum Discussion
There are some timing issues with the collectors automatically restarting that made the longer polling intervals intermittently reliable.
For items that we really just want to run once per day, or even once per day or month, we've used PowerShell datasources where the first check is to get the system date and time. Then if it matches X time of day, then process an IF loop in PowerShell.
For instance, we want to check something once per day in the 3AM hour, our PowerShell would say the equivalent of:
If (time equals 3AM) {do this here}
Obviously this won't work on built in datasources, but since those are all pretty much performance based, you want that data at a regular interval. For those custom things, like asking a server what version of service pack that it's on, our PowerShell time logic works perfectly.
