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Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software Operations
Chapter 10
RMON
The Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) MIB is an interface between the
RMON agent on a Business Policy Switch 2000 and an RMON management
application, such as the Device Manager. It defines objects that are suitable for the
management of any type of network, but some groups are targeted for Ethernet
networks in particular. The RMON agent continuously collects statistics and
proactively monitors switch performance. You can view this data through the
Device Manager.
RMON has three major functions:
• Creating and displaying alarms for user-defined events
• Gathering cumulative statistics for Ethernet interfaces
• Tracking a history of statistics for Ethernet interfaces
Working with RMON information
You can view RMON information by looking at the Graph information associated
with the port or chassis.
Viewing statistics
Device Manager gathers Ethernet statistics that you can have graphed in a variety
of formats, or you can save them to a file and export the statistics to an outside
presentation or graphing application.
To view RMON Ethernet statistics:
1 Select an object (port or chassis).