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Introduction

Network Traffic

2-5

Group Policies

Use the Group Policies feature to establish settings for all of your devices at

one time. For example, you can set up Automatic Broadcast Control

for

your switches.

See the chapter G

roup Policies for more information on these features.

Network Traffic

The Traff ic Monitor presents real-time information about the status of your

network. You can set thresholds for five important measures, which when

exceeded trigger an event that appears in the Alert Log. Use the Top5 View to

determine who the Top Talkers are in a segment.

Network Growth

The HP Network Performance Advisor is an intuitive, intelligent interpre-

tation tool that provides you with information about the entire network. The

Advisor performs automatic traffic analysis and displays the results in easy-

to-understand tables and charts. The reports created by the Advisor make

useful recommendations on how to improve network performance. The

Advisor also provides inventory information for each segment in the network.

The analysis and data provided by the Advisor assist the system administrator

in making a sound business case for changes to the network.

The Network Performance Advisor creates reports that make recommenda-

tions about reducing utilization on the network segments to increase network

performance. It provides proactive analysis of a network, in contrast to the

real-time, reactive analysis provided by Traffic Monitor.

HP Devices Supported

HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches provides Device Views (manageable by

browser) or Closeup Views to fully manage the following HP devices. The

devices that can be managed with a browser are indicated.

Table 2-1. HP Hubs and Bridges Supported

Product Number Description Browser-

manageable

28673A HP 10:10 LAN Bridge No

28674A HP Remote Ethernet Bridge No

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