H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center - Manual (Page 85)

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14. To select one or more interfaces that will provide network flow data, click the Select button above
the Interface Information list.
You must add at least one interface to an interface traffic analysis task.
NOTE:
For considerations about organizing interfaces into tasks, see " Interface traffic analysis configuration
considerations ."
The Add Interface page is displayed.
There are two methods for adding interfaces. You can obtain them automatically or configure them
manually.
To use the automatic method:
a. At the top of the Add Interface page, click the Obtain Automatically tab to add interfaces
automatically to the task.
All interfaces that can be selected for use in a traffic analysis task are displayed in the Interface
Information list under the Obtain Automatically tab of the Add Interface page.
For the interfaces of a device to appear on this list, you must first add the device to NTA using
the Device Management feature. Then, you must select the device in the NTA server
configuration under Server Management.
For more information about adding a device for traffic analysis to NTA, see "
Device
management ." For more information on selecting devices in NTA server management, see
" Modifying an NTA server configuration ."
The device you want to add must also be configured to forward NetStream, NetFlow, or sFlow
traffic to NTA as the traffic collector or collection server.
b. To add interfaces to the task, select the check box next to the Interface Description field for
every interface you want to add.
c. Click OK to accept your interface selection.
When you add the selected interfaces successfully to the task, they appear in the Interface
Information list.
To use the manual method:
a. At the top of the Add Interface page, click the Configure Manually tab to add interfaces
manually to an application traffic analysis task.
The page will update to display the configuration options for manually adding an interface to
a traffic analysis task.
b. In the Interface Description field, enter the description for the interface, for example,
GigabitEthernet1/0/2.
c. In the Interface Alias field, enter the alias for the interface.
Assigning a descriptive and meaningful alias to an interface will help you navigate quickly
and easily to reports.
d. From the Device list, select the device to which the interface belongs.
For a device to appear on this list, the device must first be added to NTA using the Device
Management feature. Then, the device must be selected in the NTA server configuration under
Server Management.