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Figure 157 Comment Dialog Box

Any comments already entered for the selected event will be shown within the editable text area.

It is possible to add, edit or view the comments for multiple events at the same time. This allows you to set identical comments for a set of related events, such as events generated by the same cause.

To do this select the set of events that you wish to access the comments for, then select Event > Comment.

If none of the selected events have yet been commented on, or if the events have different comments, then the Comment dialog box will be empty.

Updating the comments and clicking OK will set the comments for all the selected events to the entered comment.

Adding or editing comments in this manner does not in any way tie the events’ comments together. After updating the comments for a selection of multiple events you may view and edit the comments for individual events from within the selection in the normal way, and this will not affect the comments for any other events that were in the multiple selection.

Manually Resolving Events

Other than the Trap: Link is unavailable event, 3Com Network Director is unable to automatically resolve SNMP trap-based events. This means that

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