HP TopTools for Hubs and Switches - Manual (Page 116)

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Planning for Network Growth
Reorganize Your Current Equipment
Recommendation Details Section
The Recommendation Details section of the report supplies the supporting
information for the recommendations made by the Network Performance
Advisor. It includes a textual explanation and the “before” and “after” graph-
ical representations of the affected network. The recommendations are in
priority order, starting with High Priority.
A “before” representation of the network might look like the following figure:
Figure 10-5. The traffic pattern before implementing reorganization
recommendations
In this situation, the node chris.rose.hp.com communicates most frequently
with nodes on another segment. Network utilization can be improved by
moving chris.rose.hp.com to the switch segment 10.4.12.10::B3. This is a
High Priority recommendation because it will significantly decrease network
utilization for switch segment 10.4.12.10::B4.
The “after” representation would look like the following figure: