HP Network Direr Software Products manual Event LOG

360CHAPTER 8: THE EVENT LOG

This device/link: Changes the threshold for the monitor on the item indicated at the top of the dialog box only. This will be the item that the Live Graphs were being viewed for, or the item that the event was generated for, depending upon whether the Threshold Settings dialog box was launched in the context of the Live Graphs window or the Events List window respectively. This is the default.

Selected devices/links: Allows you to select the set of items to change the threshold for this monitor on, by clicking Select to launch the Change Selection dialog box. See “Selecting Items” on page 351 for more information on changing the set of selected items respectively.

By default this selection will contain only the item that the Live Graphs were being viewed for, or the item that the event was generated for. You can extend this selection to include any items of the same type in your map.

All devices/links: Changes the threshold for this monitor on all items of the same type.

This option not only changes the threshold for this monitor on items of the same type that are currently in the map, but also changes it for any items of the same type that may be added to the map in future through network discoveries or manual map changes.

Configuring the For monitor-based events 3Com Network Director, by default, stores a Storage of 10-minute history of the monitor state both before and after the event

Monitoring History was generated. This history is viewable from within the Graphs tab of the for Events More Details dialog box for the event See “Graphs Tab” on page 346 for

further information.

The time period that a history is stored for can be adjusted to any number of minutes from 1 to 60 by changing the Store history before and after events for: setting within the Logging tab of the Tools > Options dialog box: