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Configuring Triggers and Alarms 157
• “Exclude hardware addresses” combo box—allow you to select the hardware
address.
• “Use current protocol filter” checkbox—when selected, allows you to use the
current protocol filter.
Utilization
The Utilization setup dialog lets you set utilization thresholds that will trigger an action.
• Utilization trigger level (%) spinbox—allows you to set the percentage of network
bandwidth utilization which you select as the trigger.
• Condition section—allows you to choose different ways that the utilization trigger
can be reached. Maximum utilization is the condition when the actual utilization
has reached a user-specified number of times. Average utilization is the condition
when the network’s average utilization is greater than the utilization trigger.
• “Averaging period (sec)” spinbox—allows you to set the amount of time, in
seconds, that data will be collected and averaged before a value is considered for
the trigger. Sampling is every second. Values can be from 1 to 100 (seconds).
• “Use current protocol filter” checkbox—when selected, allows you to use the
current protocol filter.
Wireless Frame Errors
This dialog lets you set up a trigger for Wireless Frame Errors:
• “Percentage of frames with errors” spinbox—Set the percentage of errors that will
trigger an alarm.
• “Minimum number of packets (trigger level)” spinbox—Set the minimum number
of error packets that will trigger an alarm.