HP Transcend Traffix Manager manual Using Event Rules, Overview

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USING EVENT RULES

This chapter describes how to use event rules to analyze the data collected by Traffix™ Manager and to inform you of traffic changes on your network.

This chapter contains the following sections:

	■	Overview
	■	Predefined Event Rules
	■ Examples of Event Rules
	■	Configuring Event Rules
	■	Using Event Rules
Overview	Using Traffix Manager, you can set up event rules to provide you with
	information about the security of your network, and the level of traffic on
	the network. Event rules are applied to traffic data as it is collected. When

the conditions of a rule are met, Traffix Manager generates one or more events which you can view in the Event List.

See Chapter 10 for more information on viewing events and analyzing the causes of events.

Rule-based event generation provides you with the following benefits for proactive network monitoring:

■ It enables you to monitor security policies without having to examine map data manually.

■ It provides you with a configurable way of automatically analyzing collected data, informing you when unusual events occur.

■ It gives you an easy way of producing related map and graph displays when events occur, without complex configuration.