HP Network Direr Software Products manual Enabling Monitoring, On the Core Devices

308CHAPTER 7: MONITORING THE NETWORK

Examples	This section provides examples of how you may use the monitoring
	features of 3Com Network Director to assist in the management of your
	network.
Enabling Monitoring	You have are currently not monitoring any devices or links in your network,
on the Core Devices	and wish to start monitoring on all of the core devices in your network.
in the Map

1In the main window, select Edit > Select All Core Devices.All of the core devices in your network are selected.

2Select Monitoring > Start Monitoring. 3Com Network Director will start monitoring on all of the core devices in your network and their links.Depending upon the size of your network this may take several minutes to complete.Progress is shown in the main window status bar:

Figure 145 Monitoring Progress Display in Main Window Status bar

When monitoring has been started on all core devices the status bar will be updated to indicate this:

Figure 146 Monitoring Started Indication in Main Window Status bar

Disabling Monitoring You are currently monitoring the majority of the devices and links in your on the Whole network and are concerned that the level of traffic generated by the

Network monitoring may be too high.You are going to manually configure the monitoring parameters to reduce the traffic generated, but wish to stop all monitoring first to remove the monitoring traffic from the network.

1If you are viewing the devices in your network grouped by subnet, and are not viewing the top-level map, then first navigate to the top-level map by clicking the up button in the toolbar.

2In the main window, select Edit > Select All.All of the devices and subnets at the top-level of your network are selected.