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map. If you wish to change the selected interface, or customize the data shown in the RMONView window, you can do so using the above dialog box.

Update Rate Determines how frequently the selected device will be polled for RMON statistics data. The rate can be specified in multiples of 10 seconds. For example, specifying an update rate of 6 indicates an update rate of every 60 seconds (i.e. 1 minute).

Community String

The Community field is initialized to the read/write community string specified for the device in the 3Com Network Director Properties dialog box. See “Viewing Device Details” on page 229

Clicking Edit launches the Edit Community dialog box, which allows you to specify an alternative community string to be used to retrieve RMON data from the selected device.

View

The selected View determines the data that will be displayed when the RMONView window is launched. Clicking on Edit/Create View allows you to select what data will be displayed in the view. The supplied predefined views are:

Table 74 Predefined Views

Predefined View

Definition

 

 

All

All items in the RMON statistics group

Byte

Octets received at the chosen

 

interface

Distribution

Packets received at the chosen

 

interface broken down by packet size

Error

Error packets received at the chosen

 

interface broken down by error type

Multicast

Broadcast and multicast packets

 

received at the chosen interface

Packet

Packets dropped, packets received,

 

and broadcast and multicast packets

 

received at the chosen interface

 

 

Clicking the OK button launches the RMONView window, showing the RMON statistics data associated with the selected interface on the selected device.

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