3.5A few days ago the floppy drive on my Windows XP desktop started buzzing periodically, I thought it was just me and maybe I had contracted a virus. I checked my Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition and it hadn’t picked up anything so I installed AVG, still nothing. I thought maybe spyware, ran Spybot and ewido, nothing suspicious. I started to get reports of floppy drives going off all around the network, uh oh! I tried to think back and see what changes we had made that would affect the entire network. One of our volunteers, David, had done some tweaking in group policy on our domain policy, maybe something went awry. I emailed and he came in to check last night. We looked through the domain policy and discovered that it wasn’t even enabled right now so it couldn’t be the problem. Dave timed the interval and found that it goes off every 5 minutes, that number rung a bell, I had just been toying with the configuration files in OpenNMS and the default polling interval is 5 minutes. We logged in and temporarily turned off OpenNMS and the floppy drives stopped buzzing! Thank God it wasn’t a virus or spyware! We all had a good laugh and found that the SNMP polling was checking up on the floppy. Now that we know the cause, we can figure out the best way to deal with it.