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Remote Monitoring (RMON)

Remote Monitoring (RMON) is supported on platform: e c s z

This chapter describes the Remote Monitoring (RMON):

• Implementation

• Fault Recovery

Remote Monitoring (RMON) is an industry-standard implementation that monitors network traffic by

sharing network monitoring information. RMON provides both 32-bit and 64-bit monitoring facility and

long-term statistics collection on Dell Force10Ethernet Interfaces.

RMON operates with SNMP and monitors all nodes on a LAN segment. RMON monitors traffic passing

through the router and segment traffic not destined for the router. The monitored interfaces may be chosen

by using alarms and events with standard MIBs.

Implementation

You must configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON. For a complete SNMP implementation discussion,

refer to Chapter 6, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Configuring RMON requires using the RMON CLI and includes the following tasks:

• Set rmon alarm

• Configure an RMON event

• Configure RMON collection statistics

• Configure RMON collection history

• Enable an RMON MIB collection history group

RMON implements the following standard RFCs (for details see Appendix 51, Standards Compliance):

• RFC-2819

• RFC-3273

• RFC-3434