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title: "Global Switch Port Management Polling Settings"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/NetMRIAdminG752/42369540/Global%20Switch%20Port%20Management%20Polling%20Settings"
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> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ For NetMRI appliances with a Switch Port Management license, polling offers some flexibility. For NetMRI installations, switchport connectivity polling rates remain at the default rate of 90 minutes, but this value can be changed. In all cases, you are limited to fewer than 30 minutes per polling cycle.

NetMRI carries out Switch Port Management polling after discovering the relevant devices and adds them to a Switch Port Management device license count. NetMRI offers several polling options from the **Settings** icon >** Setup** > **Collection** **and** **Groups** > **Switch** **Port** **Management** side tab:

- **Port** **Control** **Preference**: You can specify **SNMP** or **CLI** as the polling protocol preferred by Switch Port Manager as the primary method of information gathering.
- **Periodic** **Polling**: Define regular polling time periods. Choose a polling interval of 30 or more **Minutes** or 1-24 **Hours**.
- **Scheduled** **Polling**: Schedule recurrent polling based on hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly time periods. Choosing this option, an Add New Schedule editor appears; click the **Edit** icon to make scheduling changes. Choose a **Recurrence** **Pattern** of **Once**, **Hourly**, **Daily**, **Weekly,** or **Monthly.** In all cases, you must choose an **Execution** **Time**.
- Completely disable NetMRI from performing switch port polling by selecting **Disable** **Switch** **Port** **Polling**.
- Click the **Poll** **Now** button to immediately begin polling all switch and switch-router devices in the managed network.

For more information on the use of switch device polling and related topics, see [<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Switch</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Port</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Management</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42009443)</span>*<u>.</u>

For information on the **Groups** tab and its associated functions, see [<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Creating</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Device</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u> </u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[<u>Groups</u>](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRIAdminG752/pages/42205732/Devices+and+Interfaces#DevicesandInterfaces-bookmark400)</span>*<u>.</u>