HP Transcend Traffix Manager manual RMON-2 Limitations

Protocols, Applications and Favorites 63

You might then create a favorite called Server, containing both user-defined protocols. You could display this favorite in the Map as a single color, to show the overall use of both protocols on your network.

To set up a user-defined protocol, you need:

■The name of the parent protocol over which it runs, for example TCP.

■The protocol number. For example if the protocol runs on TCP port 678, the protocol number is 678.

■The name for the protocol.

From the Configure Protocols dialog box with the Protocols tab selected you can also:

■Register a user-defined protocol with an agent so that the agent collects data from the new protocol. If you have created a protocol that is registered with one agent, you can use this option to register it with another agent.

■Deregister a user-defined protocol with an agent so that the agent no longer collects data for the protocol.

■Check whether a specific protocol is registered with an agent.

Notes on User-defined Protocols

There are some limitations on the user-defined protocols which 3Com agents support. Refer to the firmware documentation for lists of the 3Com protocols and user-defined protocols that this firmware supports.

Data collected using newly defined protocols does not appear immediately in the Map, but only after further data collections have taken place. Data collection is described in Chapter 3, “Collecting Data”.

The protocol directory on an agent may be reset when the agent is reset, in which case you must remember to set up user-defined protocols again. The supported 3Com agents listed in the firmware documentation are reset when new firmware is downloaded or the operational mode is changed. See Appendix G, “Configuring 3Com Standalone RMON-2 Agents” for more information.

RMON-2 Limitations

■You can only create protocols as the children of existing protocols supported by the agent.