User's Manual

262 CHAPTER 6: VIEWING DEVICE DETAILS
Monitoring settings can be configured from within the Monitoring tab of
the Properties dialog box:
Figure 119 Monitoring tab of the Properties dialog box
Monitoring settings, and how to change them, are covered in detail in
“
Controlling Monitoring Type and Polling Rates” on page 296.
Changing the Retry
and Timeout Settings
for a Device or
Subnet
The retry and timeout settings for a device allow you to tune the
communications between 3Com Network Director and the device so that
they can cope with slow or unreliable links. For example, a slow WAN
link may require higher timeout settings, while a wireless
building-to-building bridge may require more retries if it is subject to large
amounts of interference. It is also possible to configure the retry and
timeout settings for subnets, allowing you to specify subnet-wide settings
without having to configure the settings for each individual item
contained within the subnet.