Most of the network -related and location related polling engines within the IMS operate on an 8 second cycle (though this configurable at the cost of data accuracy/user experiences).

Practically, a polling cycle timeline works as follows:

• (Wake up from sleep if not first poll)
•  Get the data from the device
  •  If SNMP
    • GETs and GETNEXTs on targeted OIDs only (no full walks)
  • If SSH
    • Targeted commands
    • Compression enabled (to minimise load on network)
  • If HTTP
    • Targeted endpoints (URLs)
    • Parse, process and export the data.
• Sleep for whatever is left of the 8 second cycle.