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C
HAPTER
4: G
ROUPING
N
ETWORK
D
EVICES
IN
THE
M
AP
Attributes
To understand how Traffix Manager groups devices in the Map, it helps to
be familiar with the concepts of
attributes
and
groupings
.
An
attribute
is a label for a piece of information about a device: for
example, location or
IP address
. Traffix Manager has a number of
predefined attributes; you can change these or add your own.
At any one time, each attribute of a particular device is either currently
unassigned (not defined), or has a single value. For example, the value of
the location of a device might be
Boston,
or the location might be
unknown, or
unassigned
.
Predefined Attributes
There are a number of predefined attributes in Traffix Manager that you
can use to create your own groupings. For these predefined attributes,
values are usually assigned automatically as each device is discovered.
You cannot delete a predefined attribute, or change its name.
Table 5
Predefined Attributes
Name
Description
Name
DNS Name or Network Layer address.
NL Type
Network Layer protocol.
NL Addr
Network Layer (IP) address.
Network
Protocol-specific network number,
generated from the Network Layer
address.
Subnet
This attribute is set to SubnetsDB if
the object matches an entry in the
SubnetsDB file. Otherwise it is
unassigned. See
Appendix D
,
“Using
the SubnetsDB File”
.
Discovery Time
Time (in seconds, since January 1st
1970) when Traffix Manager
discovered device.
Last Activity Time
Time (in seconds, since January 1st
1970) when the device last sent or
received traffic.
Type
Device/Aggregated/DHCP Device.
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Summary of Contents for Traffix Transcend Traffix Manager
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