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Remote Monitoring (RMON)

Overview

FTOS RMON is implemented on all Dell Force10 switching platforms as indicated

by the characters that appear below each command heading:

e E-Series, c

C-Series,

s S-Series, , , or Z Z-Series.

FTOS RMON is based on IEEE standards, providing both 32-bit and 64-bit

monitoring, and long-term statistics collection. FTOS RMON supports the following

RMON groups, as defined in RFC-2819, RFC-3273, and RFC-3434:

• Ethernet Statistics Table RFC-2819

• Ethernet Statistics High-Capacity Table RFC-3273, 64bits

• Ethernet History Control Table RFC-2819

• Ethernet History Table RFC-2819

• Ethernet History High-Capacity TableRFC-3273, 64bits

• Alarm Table RFC-2819

• High-Capacity Alarm Table (64bits)RFC-3434, 64bits

• Event Table RFC-2819

• Log Table RFC-2819

FTOS RMON does not support the following statistics:

• etherStatsCollisions

• etherHistoryCollisions

• etherHistoryUtilization

Commands

The FTOS Remote Network Monitoring RMON commands are:

• rmon alarm

• rmon collection history

Note: Only SNMP GET/GETNEXT access is supported. Configure RMON using the

RMON commands. Collected data is lost during a chassis reboot.