# Enabling/ Disabling Monitor & Status Poll for interfaces

OpManager allows you to enable/ disable mon and status polling of individual interfaces for routers & switches. The steps for the same are outlined below:

- Go to **Inventory** and select the required router/switch  
- Click on the action menu (the three horizontal lines on the top right corner of the screen) and select **Configure Interfaces.**

  ![Enable/ disable monitor & status poll for interfaces in OpManager: Configure interfaces option](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/images/ci_0.JPG)

- You will find the list of interfaces associated with the router/switch along with check boxes for **Manage** & **Status poll**

  ![Enable/ disable monitor & status poll for interfaces in OpManager: Manage and status poll](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/images/ci_1.JPG)

**Status poll:** Allow / disallow status polling to check the availability of the interface  
**Manage:** Allow / prevent OpManager from monitoring the thresholds for the interface.  
If unchecked, the utilization, errors rate & discards rate for the interface wont be monitored and alarms will not be raised if they cross the threshold value.

- Check the Monitor/ Status poll checkbox of the corresponding interface to enable Monitoring/Status poll for the same.