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Label Type

Label Source

 

 

Custom Name

Manually specified. For more information about how to set the

 

Custom Name for a map item see “Viewing Device Details” on

 

page 229.

User Name

For NBX phones this is the User Name associated with the

 

phone, as retrieved from the NCP. For more information about

 

working with NBX telephony solutions see “NBX Support” on

 

page 753.

 

For other devices this is the 802.1X session User Name, as

 

retrieved from the authenticator switch. For more information

 

about network login see “Dynamic Network Login Support”

 

on page 205.

 

Map items other than devices do not have a User Name label.

DNS Name

3Com Network Director automatically resolves DNS Names for

 

devices that have a valid IP address, using the DNS servers

 

configured on the PC that 3Com Network Director is running

 

on. This resolution is performed during discovery. For more

 

information about DNS resolution during discovery see “DNS

 

Name Resolution ” on page 95.

 

Map items other than devices do not have a DNS Name label.

System Name

For devices this is the System Name that the device is

 

configured with.

 

For clouds this is a name automatically assigned by 3Com

 

Network Director, based upon when the cloud was created.

 

Map items other than devices and clouds do not have a System

 

Name label.

IP Address

For devices this is the first IP interface configured on the device

 

that 3Com Network Director detected.

 

For subnets this is the subnet IP address.

 

For subnet icons that represent multiple subnets this is a list of

 

the subnet IP addresses.

 

Map items other than devices and subnets do not have an IP

 

Address label.

MAC Address

For devices this is the first MAC address configured on the

 

device that 3Com Network Director detected. For more

 

information about how to configure the display of MAC

 

addresses see “Vendor Translation of MAC Addresses” on

 

page 177.

 

Map items other than devices do not have a MAC Address

 

label.

 

 

If 3Com Network Director is unable to obtain a label of the type you have selected, then it will use the first label that it is able to locate (using the

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