HP Network Direr Software Products manual Event Severity Colors, Event List Color Coding Key

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Director logs a single event and updates it with details of the number of times the condition that led to the event has occurred.

For example, a Security Violation event logged with recurring severity may indicate that someone is trying to crack user passwords on your network, alternatively, it may indicate that a user has forgotten their password and is repeatedly trying to log in.

Event Severity Colors

Each level of event severity has a color associated with it that is used within the list in the Events window for easy identification as shown in the following table:

Table 51 Event List Color Coding Key

Color	Severity
Black	Recurring
Dark Red	Critical
Red	High
Yellow	Warning
Turquoise	Information

Event Resolution Any logged event that represents an abnormal network condition is initially logged as an unresolved event to indicate that the condition that led to the event being generated is, as far as 3Com Network Director can deduce, still occurring. Unresolved events allow you to see the outstanding abnormal network conditions that may be affecting your users, and so can help you determine how to prioritize any actions you may need to take on your network.

When the condition that led to the original event being logged is later determined to have returned to normal the event is marked as resolved. Resolved events allow you to see historical occurrences in your network, which can help your awareness of problems that arise on a regular basis and allow you to see emerging patterns of network behavior. You may use this information to help you determine what action you need to take to prevent these problems from occurring in future, and so improve the reliability and performance of your network.

Information severity events are not logged as either unresolved or resolved events, as they do not represent an abnormal network condition, therefore there is nothing to resolve.