User Guide

Showing Thresholds 289
Showing Plot Points 290
Exporting a Graph 290
Zooming into a Graph 291
Poll Rates 293
Configuration 293
Starting and Stopping Monitoring 293
Disabling and Enabling Individual Monitors 294
Controlling Monitoring Type and Polling Rates 296
Monitoring Mode 296
Poll Rate 298
Specifying Monitoring Mode and Poll Rates at the Whole Map
Level 298
Specifying Monitoring Mode and Poll Rates at the Subnet Level 300
Specifying Monitoring Mode and Poll Rates at the Device Level 301
Specifying Monitoring Mode in the Discovery Wizard 302
Changing Retry Periods and Timeouts 304
Controlling Event Generation from Monitors 304
Registering 3Com Network Director as an SNMP Trap Destination 304
Configuring the Storage of Monitoring Data 306
Examples 308
Enabling Monitoring on the Core Devices in the Map 308
Disabling Monitoring on the Whole Network 308
Configuring Monitoring for a Remote Office 309
Extending the Length of Maintained Monitor History 313
Key Considerations 314
Monitoring and Logged Data 314
Text Displayed in Graphs 314
Problems Starting Monitoring for a Device or Link 315
8 THE EVENT LOG
Overview 319
Key Concepts 319
Events 319
Event Types 320
Monitor-Based Events 320
SNMP Trap-Based Events 321