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How does the MAC-IP collector timing work?

 The MAC-IP Collector has no set runtime, it basically runs until the collection is finished.

There will be messages in the logs like below when the collector starts and finishes:

2025-02-25 07:36:17 68036 spe-calc-mis spe-calc-mis::(eval) 4269 MAC-IP collection started
2025-02-25 08:28:27 68036 spe-calc-mis spe-calc-mis::(eval) 4296 MAC-IP collection completed in 3130 seconds

Unfortunately, we do not have a setting to set the start time but we do have one which sets the delay between runs - "nim_calc_mis_runtime".

The unit for this setting is seconds and the default is 3600 = 1 Hour.

To set the time between runs:

  1. Go into the Admin Tool GUI as Admin.
  2. Select "Advanced Options" in the "Network Discovery - Advanced Options" section.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "File Edit Mode" button.
  4. Enter the new setting (as below) at the bottom of the list in the "Advanced Options (CFG format)" box.

    e.g. to make it 2 hours

    'nim_calc_mis_runtime'    '7200'

    Please type this in as cutting and pasting often results in the wrong quotes which Statseeker will not like.
  5. Click the "Save" button below the box.

The MAC-IP Collection start time will advance by the amount of time it takes to run plus the time between runs each time it starts.

If you kill the MAC-IP collector process (spe-calc-mis) it will not start collecting again until the duration of the nim_calc_mis_runtime setting has completed.