Smart Polling plans

Learn how Smart Polling plans are displayed, managed, and executed in the Vantage platform. This includes understanding plan statuses, how to add or search for plans, and how to interpret result data. Icons and table fields provide insight into device polling outcomes and plan performance. Plans can be defined in Vantage, but are executed in Guardian sensors, or Arc sensors that are connected to Guardian. Vantage receives the result of those executions via the usual synchronization process.

Figure 1. Populated Plans page

Smart Polling Plans page showing a list of plans

Plans

The Plans section shows a list of all the Smart Polling plans that have been added for your organization. The icons show the current status of the plan:

  • : Active
  • : Paused

Progressive plans from connected sensors are also shown here. You can merge duplicate progressive plans into a single plan managed from Vantage. For more details, see Centralized plan management.

Add button

The icon lets you add a new Smart Polling plan.

Search field

The search field lets you easily find a specific Smart Polling plan.

Results

Once a Smart Polling plan has been executed, the results will show in the Smart Polling Plans page. When you select a specific plan, the table will show the:

  • Status of the plan through the ACTIVE | INACTIVE indicator
  • Result of the last polling of each node polled within the last two weeks

The table columns will show:

  • Node address: The internet protocol (IP) address of the node that was detected
  • Sensor Host: The name of the sensor
  • Last poll time: The time since the last execution of the plan for that node
  • Outcome: The result of the last execution of the plan, which can be:
    • Successful: Smart Polling was able to poll the host and enrich the corresponding asset
    • No connection to host: Verify that the device is up, its services are running, that the sensor has a route to that host and no firewall is blocking the connection
    • Inconclusive: This device is unsupported or only partly supported by Smart Polling
    • Missing credentials: Add the credentials to the Credentials Manager
    • Wrong credentials: Update the credentials in the Credentials Manager

For more details about the additional information that Smart Polling can provide, see Smart Polling results.

Suggestions

Vantage regularly analyzes your organization and adds recommended Smart Polling plans to the Suggestions section based on the results. If there are no suggestions, this section will not show.