User's Manual

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■ Internet — how 3Com Network Director should connect to the
Internet.
■ Discovery — discovery options available to 3Com Network Director.
■ Monitoring — default global monitoring options.
■ Logging — options for logging historical monitoring data.
■ VLANs — how 3Com Network Director should display and process
VLAN data.
■ Retry/Timeout — default global retry and timeout values for
contacting devices during discovery and monitoring.
■ Security — password protection options for 3Com Network Director.
Any option set in the Options dialog box applies to all maps opened
within 3Com Network Director, not just the map that was open when the
option was set. All options are automatically saved, and are retained for
future use in 3Com Network Director.
General
This tab, as shown in Figure 10
, displays the following:
■ Default File Location — change the default location where map files
are saved to a different location. Click Browse to choose the directory
you want. If the path you enter does not exist, you are warned of this
when you click OK.
The default directory is:
< 3Com Network Director install
dir>\maps\my_maps
.
See “
Saving and Opening Maps” on page 206 for more information.