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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2001
Ronan François Daniel Grandin, Edinburgh, GB;
David James Stevenson, Edinburgh, GB;
Andrew Hunter Gray, West Lothian, GB;
Neil William Gray, Livingston, GB;
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A network management apparatus and method for determining an optimum threshold value for a monitored characteristic of a network is described. The optimum threshold value is determined by counting a number of previously received events generated from values for a monitored characteristic which were above or below an existing threshold value for the monitored characteristic, and determining the optimum threshold value in dependence on the counted number. An optimum threshold value is provided, which is tailored to suit the network concerned.