HP Transcend Traffix Manager User Manual

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Attributes

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MAC Addr

Only devices which are in the same
broadcast domain as the interface on
an RMON-2 agent will have the MAC
address attribute assigned to them.
See

“Assigning MAC Addresses”

on

page 42

for an example of this.

Vendor

The Vendor attribute is only assigned
if the following criteria are met:

The MAC Address attribute is
assigned (see above).

The MAC address matches a
vendor prefix in the

vendor.map

file:

<installdir>/
TraffixServer/config/
vendor.map

DNS Layer 1

The top level of the DNS naming
scheme (for example, com).

DNS Layer 2,
DNS Layer 3,...
DNS Layer 8

Lower levels of the DNS naming
scheme.

Non-IP devices do not have DNS Layer
attributes assigned. IP devices will
only have DNS Layer attributes
assigned if the following criteria are
met:

Domain Name System (DNS) is
implemented at your site.

DNS name

lookup

is enabled on

the system where the server is
running and the name

lookup

succeeds.

See

“Default DNS Domain”

on

page 126

for information on

assigning a default DNS domain to
devices.

Table 5 Predefined Attributes (continued)

Name

Description

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