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Page 1: Com Network Supervisor
Getting the Best from 3Com Network Supervisor ® Software Version 3.0 for Windows http://www.3com.com/tns Part No. DUA1510-0AAA04-PDF Published April 2001 ®... - Page 2 3Com Technologies. Santa Clara, California 3Com Technologies reserves the right to revise this documentation and to make changes in content from time 95052-8145 to time without obligation on the part of 3Com Technologies to provide notification of such revision or change.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
ONTENTS BOUT UIDE How to Use This Guide Who Is This Guide For? Conventions Related Documentation Year 2000 Compliance Documentation Comments VERVIEW OF ETWORK Why Use Network Management? The Benefits of Network Management Full Network View from a Single PC 7 Reducing Downtime Improving Performance Freeing Up Personnel... - Page 4 Viewing Network Trends and Patterns 21 Tracking the Devices on Your Network Planning Your Network Capacity Listing All the Devices Attached to Each Port Network Discovery Report PDATE About Live Update Live Update Using Live Update Live Update Setup 3COM END USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT...
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Page 5: About This Guide
This is a sample information note icon. BOUT The main concepts and benefits of network management and how you can benefit from it. An overview of Network Supervisor and how it can help you. UIDE 3Com ® Network... -
Page 6: Related Documentation
This document can be accessed from the Windows Start menu, then by following this path: Programs>3Com Network Supervisor>Network Supervisor Guide. Year 2000 For information on Year 2000 compliance and 3Com products, visit the Compliance 3Com Year 2000 Web page: http://www.3com.com/products/yr2000.html Documentation Your suggestions are very important to us. -
Page 7: Overview Of Network Management
Network management provides the following benefits: Network Management Full Network View Some network management software (including 3Com from a Single PC Supervisor) allows you to view and display all devices, links and activity on your network from the convenience of a single, centrally-situated PC. For example, you can easily locate and monitor the health of a specific PC or other type of device without leaving your desk. -
Page 8: Reducing Downtime
1: O HAPTER VERVIEW OF Reducing Downtime Network downtime can affect your business and its productivity. When this happens, it is important that you restore connections as quickly as possible. Reactive network management does reduce downtime by responding to device and link failures. However, a network management solution provides you with a proactive management capability. -
Page 9: Predicting Problem Links And Devices
Predicting Problem This lets you provide preventative solutions using less staff-hours and Links and Devices reduces the amount of time that your network is either inefficient or unavailable. For example, network management software can show: History of problem areas. Devices on your network suffering from stress. Stress is the performance measure of a network object (a device or link) against pre-defined thresholds. - Page 10 1: O HAPTER VERVIEW OF ETWORK ANAGEMENT...
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Page 11: Using
Network Supervisor operates on Ethernet networks with up to 1500 devices (or 3000 devices if you have IP phones on your network). It works best on networks which are based on 3Com devices, (although other vendors’ devices are supported). This chapter contains the following sections:... -
Page 12: Overview Of Network Supervisor Wizards
2: U HAPTER SING ETWORK Overview of Wizards are provided to guide you through the setup and configuration Network of Network Supervisor parameters. Supervisor Wizards The Wizards often suggest useful default settings which can help you start monitoring your network even when you are not sure which values to set. -
Page 13: Total Visibility Of Network Activity
Network Supervisor color-codes objects to indicate stress levels, providing an accurate and easy-to-read indication of current levels of stress on any monitored objects. A warning zone helps you predict when a device or link may be about to become a problem. Total Visibility of You cannot always be scanning the Network Supervisor map for potential Network Activity... -
Page 14: Monitoring Core Devices And Links
Unsupported SNMP devices (for example, some non-3Com devices) are shown in this way. Monitoring Additional Devices and Links You can also manually start monitoring any other devices or links which are particularly important to your network. -
Page 15: Reacting To Network Events
Reacting to Network When you start monitoring for the first time, you may start to see many Events events in the Event List. If the number of events in the list appears to be excessive, this may indicate that the activity thresholds set are too low for your network. If this is the case, Network Supervisor lets you tune the thresholds to a more appropriate level. -
Page 16: Viewing Detailed Stress Indicators
2: U HAPTER SING ETWORK The significant advantage of having a yellow (warning) zone is that it gives you a clear indication that a monitor is approaching a serious condition. This may allow you to predict some network problems before they become critical. - Page 17 Viewing the Stress on your Network Plain Text Interpretation of a Network Problem A textual interpretation of a network problem is a useful starting point or may provide enough information for you to identify and solve a problem. Network Supervisor provides this information with its What’s Wrong Dialog Box, shown in Figure The language used in the What’s Wrong Dialog Box is non-technical,...
- Page 18 2: U HAPTER SING ETWORK The All Monitors Dialog Box (shown in A monitor is a specific stress measure for a network device or link. Information on each monitor is gathered by an individual monitor. Information from the individual monitors for each device is combined to form one overall monitor.
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Page 19: Managing And Manipulating Events
Managing and The Network Supervisor Event List greatly improves your ability to Manipulating prioritize and react to problems on your network. Events Intelligent Event Network Supervisor generates events intelligently. For example, to Generation prevent utilization ‘spikes’ causing unnecessary events, the threshold set must be exceeded for a reasonable period of time (determined by Network Supervisor) before an event is generated. -
Page 20: Instant Notification Of Significant Activity Using Alerts
2: U HAPTER SING ETWORK In the longer term, the Comment facility lets you build a problem solving database for your network which can help you to solve common problems quickly. Sorting Sorting lets you order events by the column headings of the Event List. For example, you can sort by event severity, time or importance. -
Page 21: Viewing Network Trends And Patterns
Viewing Network Sometimes it is helpful to have an overview or statistical summary of Trends and Patterns certain aspects of your network. This type of information is useful for outlining patterns and trends in the use of your network which may not be easily visible in other views. It is especially useful for strategy and planning purposes, such as the future expansion of your network when your business, volume of network traffic and number of users expand. -
Page 22: Planning Your Network Capacity
2: U HAPTER SING ETWORK UPERVISOR TO ANAGE ETWORK Planning Your You can use the Network Capacity Report to calculate the number of Network Capacity ports available on your network and identify which devices they belong This provides a powerful planning tool which allows you to quickly view the devices which are close to using the maximum number of available ports. -
Page 23: Live Update
3Com server. It then displays a list of the newer files on the server and asks if you want to download them. - Page 24 Live Update can connect to the 3Com server. Select File Groups Select File Groups allows you to choose the files you wish to download. Depending on the files available on the 3Com server, you can choose from the following: Network Supervisor updates (service packs)
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Page 25: 3Com End User Software License Agreement
You may not transfer or assign the Software and/or this License Agreement to another party without the prior written consent of 3Com. If such consent is given and you transfer or assign the Software and/or this License Agreement, then you must at the same time either transfer any copies of the Software as well as the supporting documentation to the same party or destroy any such materials not transferred. - Page 26 PROVIDED ARE FREE OF ERRORS OR VIRUSES, OR THAT THE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION ARE SUITABLE FOR YOUR INTENDED USE. IN NO EVENT SHALL 3COM OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED...