Amount of bandwidth consumed by an On-Premise Poller

Amount of bandwidth consumed by an On-Premise Poller

The On-Premise Poller software collects metrics from the internal network and pushes the same to the Site24x7 central server. 

Check the table below for the bandwidth consumed for each monitor type:

Monitor Type
Bandwidth Consumed
Poll Interval
10 NCM Devices
5-10 MB
1 hour
100 NetFlow Interfaces
 400-500 KB
10 mins
100 Network Interfaces
10-20 KB
5 mins
10 Agentless Servers
20-30 KB
5 mins
5 Ping
<5 KB
5 mins








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