# How to configure device monitoring interval in bulk?

Monitoring interval can be configured in bulk for devices belonging to a particular category or for random devices. This can be performed from **Inventory** or from the **Quick Configuration Wizard**.

## Inventory

From the Inventory, you can choose multiple devices belonging to different categories and modify their monitoring intervals in bulk.

- Go to **Inventory** > **Devices** and select the required device category from the category filter menu in the left pane.
- Choose the required devices from the Devices list view.
- Click on the three dots next to the Generate reports button and in the following menu that appears, click on **Monitoring Interval** option.
- Choose a monitoring interval from the options provided. If you wish to have your own custom monitoring interval, click on **Custom** and enter the monitoring interval time in minutes.
- Click on the **Save** button.

![Bulk configuration of monitoring intervals for devices in OpManager: Configuration through inventory](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/INTERVAL-IN-bulk.jpg)

## Quick Configuration Wizard

From Quick Configuration Wizard, you can modify the monitoring interval of different device categories. This change will be reflected across all the devices belonging to the modified category.

- Go to **Settings** > **Configuration** > **Quick Configuration Wizard** > **Monitoring Intervals**
- From the list of **Device Categories** present, click on **Enable** and mention the Monitoring Interval in minutes for the ones that you want to monitor.
- Click **Save** to change the configuration.

![Bulk configuration of monitoring intervals for devices in OpManager: Configuration through quick configuration wizard](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/how-to/images/QCW-monitoring-interval.PNG)