# 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:

| Field            | Description                                           | Value                                  |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| 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>                                |

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

*Your New Poller modal should look like this:*

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/fbSELbHwB4GcLuDcZMCU/blobs/GZYsSu7R79EMFJ25iRDE/ipcpg-child-poller-1.png)

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

## Details

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

| Field       | Description                                                   | Value               |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- |
| Description | A description of what this Poller is for and/or how it works. | \<Your description> |

*Your Details form should look like this:*

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/fbSELbHwB4GcLuDcZMCU/blobs/3NylJhPOiUieBzCoyjBO/ipcpg-child-poller-2.png)

**Save** the Poller.

## Update Connection Variable

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

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/fbSELbHwB4GcLuDcZMCU/blobs/Uhq3PKqC5PejtO0ibQlj/ipcpg-child-poller-3.png)

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

The Poller opens in a new window.

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/fbSELbHwB4GcLuDcZMCU/blobs/5d723KKEuE2fFGYO6M9J/ipcpg-child-poller-4.png)

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

Open the variable created on the '[Connection Variables](https://docs.sharelogic.com/unifi/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**.