HP Network Direr Software Products manual Update Rate, Community String

428CHAPTER 10: RMON

This dialog box presents a list of the interfaces available on the device, allowing you to choose the interface which you want to view the associated data for.

Whenever it can, 3Com Network Director will pre-select the interface in the list associated with your selection on the 3Com Network Director 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 75 Predefined Views

Predefined View	Definition
All	All items in the RMON history group
Byte	Octets received at the chosen
	interface
Error	Packets received at the chosen
	interface broken down by packet size
Load	Percentage network utilization on the
	chosen interface
Multicast	Broadcast and multicast packets
	received at the chosen interface