User's Manual

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The Event System The 3Com Network Director Event System provides a constantly updated
log of activity on your network and can be used to view and take action
on abnormal network conditions before they cause problems. The event
system offers filtering tools to allow you to view only events of interest
and offers configurable Smart Event Analysis to help ensure that logged
events are relevant and concise.
For more information, see “
The Event Log” on page 319.
Reports on Historical
Data
As part of monitoring your network, 3Com Network Director stores all
monitored data to disk and allows you to generate detailed, long-term
reports of activity and abnormal conditions on devices and links on your
network. Using these reports, you can identify long term network trends.
For more information, see “
Performance Reporting” on page 385.
RMON Support 3Com Network Director provides detailed, flexible tools to allow you to
view RMON information gathered from any supported 3Com device.
For more information, see “
Rmon” on page 403.
VLAN Support 3Com Network Director can discover and represent all VLANs configured
on your network. You can use the 3Com Network Director map to
visualize VLAN connectivity on your network or view detailed VLAN
information through the Properties dialog for devices or links.
3Com Network Director can also automatically deploy VLANs on your
network. Using the VLAN Configuration wizard, you can deploy a new
VLAN across one or more devices or links, set up all necessary IP routing
to integrate a new VLAN with the rest of your network or modify the
VLAN membership of one or more devices or links.
For more information, see “
Vlan Management” on page 499.