User's Manual

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PERFORMANCE REPORTING
Overview This chapter describes the logging and reporting of data within 3Com
Network Director.
3Com Network Director uses monitoring to track the health of your
network and spot problems as they occur. One of the functions
performed by 3Com Network Director is to collect this monitored data
and log it to disk. This gives you the ability to produce reports on devices
and links, that show the health of your network over a period of time,
and when particular problems occurred. You can also use these reports to
see how network usage changes over a period of time.
See “
Monitoring the Network” on page 273.
This chapter covers the following topics:
■ Key Concepts
■ Components
■ Examples
■ Useful Information and References
■ Key Considerations
Key Concepts
Automated logging Whenever you start monitoring an item, 3Com Network Director
automatically logs all collected data in a database. When you stop
monitoring an item, data collection is stopped. In this way you can
control what parts of the network to monitor for long-term data
collection. Logging data from an item adds no extra overhead to 3Com
Network Director in terms of collecting live data from your network.