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Also, you should try to ensure that the IP addresses of the devices on your

 

subnet are all within a small set of ranges, with few or no gaps between

 

the devices on each range and then explicitly specify those ranges in the

 

Network Discovery wizard. If 3Com Network Director has to ping lots of

 

addresses that don’t exist, the discovery time can greatly increase as it is

 

waiting for lots of timeouts.

 

See “Using 3Com Network Director On A Multi-Site Network” on

 

page 681 for more information on configuring the timeouts and retries

 

appropriately within your network.

 

 

Discovery Report

The Discovery report contains a list of problems that were encountered

Errors and

during the discovery process. For the detecting devices part of discovery,

Warnings

these are grouped by subnet. For the topology part of the discovery

 

process, the problems are grouped by multinet.

 

Discovery Section

 

The potential issues that may be detected and reported in the detecting

 

devices phase of discovery are listed below, along with their potential

 

causes:

 

This subnet can contain more devices than 3Com Network Director

 

currently allows during discovery, and will therefore not be

 

discovered

 

Subnets that can contain more than 65535 devices can take an extremely

 

long time to discover. Therefore, 3Com Network Director ignores these

 

subnets during all discovery operations. This message can only occur if

 

you chose the second option on the first pane of the Network Discovery

 

wizard, since this is where 3Com Network Director interrogates any

 

routers it detects in order to determine the additional subnets to discover.

 

If you still wish to discover this subnet then you should use the Specify

 

Subnets option in the wizard and use restricted IP ranges.

 

3Com Network Director failed to resolve the MAC addresses for

 

the following devices

 

3Com Network Director needs to determine the MAC addresses of

 

devices for use in the topology process. For non-SNMP devices 3Com

 

Network Director achieves this by reading the ARP cache of a router or, if

 

the devices are on the local subnet, it reads the ARP cache of the PC

 

running 3Com Network Director. This message may be logged if 3Com

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