# Child Poller

A Poller is a configuration record which defines the frequency of polling and which logic to use (the logic itself is defined in the Poll Processor). Each time it is run, it creates a corresponding Poll Request record.

## New Poller

Click the **'Pollers' icon** & then **New**.

The fields to be configured for our Poller record are as follows:

<table><thead><tr><th width="181.73081515206997">Field</th><th width="279.3333333333333">Description</th><th>Value</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Name*</td><td>The name of your Poller.</td><td>&#x3C;Your Name></td></tr><tr><td>Poll processor*</td><td>The Poll Processor to use when running this Poller.</td><td>&#x3C;Your Poll Processor></td></tr><tr><td>Run</td><td>The frequency at which the Poller should run.</td><td>'On Demand'</td></tr><tr><td>Run as</td><td>Poller will run with credentials of specified user.</td><td>&#x3C;Your  Inbound user> (from Connection)</td></tr><tr><td>Active*</td><td>Set to true to use this Poller record for processing.</td><td>&#x3C;true></td></tr></tbody></table>

*\*These fields are mandatory, or automatically defaulted to true.*

*Your New Poller modal should look like this:*

![](https://605238050-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQBk35gIi557UHt7QlJ%2F-MgkZ8ZzsbfnQyhpZR3n%2F-MgkyajQ7UKuMo6foV8B%2FIPCPG%20-%20Child%20Poller%201.png?alt=media\&token=e16beadf-e008-43b9-9ea1-f116537b8ec3)

**Submit and view** to further configure the Poller.

## Details

The fields to be configured for the Details form are as follows:

<table><thead><tr><th width="150">Field</th><th width="373.66101694915255">Description</th><th>Value</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Description</td><td>A description of what this Poller is for and/or how it works.</td><td>&#x3C;Your description></td></tr></tbody></table>

*Your Details form should look like this:*

![](https://605238050-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQBk35gIi557UHt7QlJ%2F-MgkZ8ZzsbfnQyhpZR3n%2F-Mgl-PDbhrNkfWZvEh9N%2FIPCPG%20-%20Child%20Poller%202.png?alt=media\&token=f57ba909-4a5d-4e23-af42-9ccaecafa450)

**Save** the Poller.

## Update Connection Variable

Update the value of the 'incident\_poller' Connection Variable with the sys\_id of the child Poller.

![](https://605238050-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQBk35gIi557UHt7QlJ%2F-MgkZ8ZzsbfnQyhpZR3n%2F-Mgl1-R--5hvM906jmw0%2FIPCPG%20-%20Child%20Poller%203.png?alt=media\&token=7cd5a634-2a7b-4e4f-9298-9b33ba056a3d)

Click on the **Hamburger Menu** and select **Open in platform**.

The Poller opens in a new window.

![](https://605238050-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQBk35gIi557UHt7QlJ%2F-MgkZ8ZzsbfnQyhpZR3n%2F-Mgl2AxSbf1vq8Q2vyGo%2FIPCPG%20-%20Child%20Poller%204.png?alt=media\&token=34469685-a6f5-484a-be76-708687b820ba)

**Right-click** the Header & '**Copy sys\_id**'.

Open the variable created on the '[Connection Variables](https://docs.sharelogic.com/unifi/3.1/integration-guides/incident-parent-and-child-poller-guide/connection-variables#variable-incident_poller)' page of this Guide and update the value with the copied sys\_id.

Next, we will configure the **Parent Poll Processor**.