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■ Industry standards — Traffix Manager supports the IETF RMON-2
standard, which enables information about network and application
layer protocol communication patterns to be collected. See “
RMON
Overview” on page 37 for more information.
■ Open Database for Storage — Traffix Manager has a relational
database as its core data repository, enabling easy management of
large quantities of data collected from several monitoring points.
How Does Traffix
Manager Work?
Traffix Manager is a client/server application. The Traffix Manager server
periodically polls RMON-1 and RMON-2 agents on your network for data
about conversations between devices. See “
RMON Overview” on
page 37
for more information about RMON-1 and RMON-2 agents.