User's Manual

Configuration 299
Figure 139 Monitoring Tab of Tools > Options Dialog Box
If Use automatic monitoring is selected, the default, then you may specify
the number of important devices to use full monitoring mode for.All
other devices will be monitored using the response monitoring mode.In
automatic monitoring mode 3Com Network Director automatically
controls the Monitoring global defaults settings.
If Use automatic monitoring is not selected then the monitoring mode
and poll rate to apply to the whole map can be specified in the
Monitoring global defaults portion of the dialog box.
If you are in automatic mode or you have not changed the poll rates from
the default and a Network Discovery adds more devices to your map then
3Com Network Director may automatically reduce the whole map poll
rates to reduce the amount of traffic generated by monitoring.