HP Transcend Traffix Manager Manager Monitors, What Effect Do, Dhcp Devices Have, On The Map?

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DHCP

	This appendix contains the following sections:
	■ How Traffix Manager Monitors DHCP Devices
	■ What Effect Do DHCP Devices Have On The Map?
How Traffix	Traffix™ Manager normally uses the Network Layer Address (for example,
Manager Monitors	IP address, IPX address) as the unique way to identify objects on your
DHCP Devices	network. However, the IP address of devices managed using the Dynamic
	Host Control Protocol (DHCP) can change, and therefore this is an
	unreliable method of identification for these devices.
	The only certain way of identifying such devices in the Map is to use the
	MAC address of the device. You can use the DHCP configuration file to
	specify which devices you want Traffix Manager to identify using this
	method. You can open this file by clicking DHCP Setup in the Traffix
	Control Panel.
What Effect Do	If a device which is managed using DHCP is discovered on your network,
DHCP Devices Have	it may appear on the Traffix Manager Map as a normal device until Traffix
On The Map?	Manager realizes it is a DHCP device.
	A DHCP device requests an IP address from the DHCP server. DHCP is a
	dynamic protocol, and the DHCP server can provide a different IP address
	for the same device each time this request is made. If, according to your
	local DHCP policy, the IP address of a device changes, the device will
	appear exactly the same in the Map, except that its IP address will
	change.
	If the old IP address of a device is assigned to a new MAC address, a new
	device is created in the Map. This new device will have the old IP address
	and the new MAC address attribute assigned to it. The original device