Using Eventr Rules; Overview - 3Com Traffix Transcend Traffix Manager User Manual

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Overview

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This chapter describes how to use event rules to analyze the data
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collected by Traffix
your network.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Overview
Predefined Event Rules
Examples of Event Rules
Configuring Event Rules
Using Event Rules
Using Traffix Manager, you can set up event rules to provide you with
information about the security of your network, and the level of traffic on
the network. Event rules are applied to traffic data as it is collected. When
the conditions of a rule are met, Traffix Manager generates one or more
events which you can view in the Event List.
See Chapter 10 for more information on viewing events and analyzing
the causes of events.
Rule-based event generation provides you with the following benefits for
proactive network monitoring:
It enables you to monitor security policies without having to examine
map data manually.
It provides you with a configurable way of automatically analyzing
collected data, informing you when unusual events occur.
It gives you an easy way of producing related map and graph displays
when events occur, without complex configuration.
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