HP Network Direr Software Products manual Main Features

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The Event System The 3Com Network Director Event System provides a constantly updated log of activity on your network and can be used to view and take action on abnormal network conditions before they cause problems. The event system offers filtering tools to allow you to view only events of interest and offers configurable Smart Event Analysis to help ensure that logged events are relevant and concise.

For more information, see “The Event Log” on page 319.

Reports on Historical As part of monitoring your network, 3Com Network Director stores all Data monitored data to disk and allows you to generate detailed, long-term

reports of activity and abnormal conditions on devices and links on your network. Using these reports, you can identify long term network trends.

For more information, see “Performance Reporting” on page 385.

RMON Support 3Com Network Director provides detailed, flexible tools to allow you to view RMON information gathered from any supported 3Com device.

For more information, see “Rmon” on page 403.

VLAN Support 3Com Network Director can discover and represent all VLANs configured on your network. You can use the 3Com Network Director map to visualize VLAN connectivity on your network or view detailed VLAN information through the Properties dialog for devices or links.

3Com Network Director can also automatically deploy VLANs on your network. Using the VLAN Configuration wizard, you can deploy a new VLAN across one or more devices or links, set up all necessary IP routing to integrate a new VLAN with the rest of your network or modify the VLAN membership of one or more devices or links.

For more information, see “Vlan Management” on page 499.