user manual

CONFIGURING AGENTS FOR DATA

COLLECTION

This chapter describes how to use Traffix

™

Manager to identify and

enable RMON agents on your network for data collection.

It contains the following sections:

■ Supported RMON Agents and Interfaces

■ Finding Agents for Data Collection

See “RMON Overview” on page 37 for more information about RMON

agents.

Supported RMON

Agents and

Interfaces

Traffix Manager supports all agents which implement all the relevant

groups of RMON-1 and RMON-2 standards.

Refer to RFCs 1757, 2021 and 2074 for a list of the RMON groups which

are retrieved by Traffix Manager:

■ RMON-1 Request for Comment:

http://www.it.kth.se/docs/rfc/rfcs/rfc1757.txt

■ RMON-2 Request for Comment:

http://www.it.kth.se/docs/rfc/rfcs/rfc2021.txt

■ RMON-2 Protocol Identifiers:

http://www.it.kth.se/docs/rfc/rfcs/rfc2074.txt

See Appendix F for a list of interface types supported by Traffix Manager.

See

http://www.3com.com/network_management/probe_interop for a

list of third-party agents which are supported by Traffix Manager.