Child Poller
A Poller is a configuration record which defines the frequency of polling and which logic to use.
A Poller is a configuration record which defines the frequency of polling and which logic to use.
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.
Click the 'Pollers' icon & then New.
The fields to be configured for our Poller record are as follows:
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
*These fields are mandatory, or automatically defaulted to true.
Your New Poller modal should look like this:
Submit and view to further configure the Poller.
The fields to be configured for the Details form are as follows:
Your Details form should look like this:
Save the Poller.
Update the value of the 'incident_poller' Connection Variable with the sys_id of the child Poller.
Click on the Hamburger Menu and select Open in platform.
The Poller opens in a new window.
Right-click the Header & 'Copy sys_id'.
Open the variable created on the 'Connection Variables' page of this Guide and update the value with the copied sys_id.
Next, we will configure the Parent Poll Processor.
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
Description
A description of what this Poller is for and/or how it works.
<Your description>
Name*
The name of your Poller.
<Your Name>
Poll processor*
The Poll Processor to use when running this Poller.
<Your Poll Processor>
Run
The frequency at which the Poller should run.
'On Demand'
Run as
Poller will run with credentials of specified user.
<Your Inbound user> (from Connection)
Active*
Set to true to use this Poller record for processing.
<true>
