Brocade Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide v6.1.2_cee (53-1001258-01, June 2009)

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11Configuring RMON using the CEE CLI
In this chapter
Default RMON configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
RMON configuration procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Remote monitoring (RMON) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard monitoring
specification that allows various network agents and console systems to exchange network
monitoring data. The RMON specification defines a set of statistics and functions that can be
exchanged between RMON-compliant console managers and network probes. As such, RMON
provides you with comprehensive network-fault diagnosis, planning, and performance-tuning
information. Alarms and events are configurable RMON parameters:
Alarms—Monitors a specific management information base (MIB) object for a specified
interval, triggers an alarm at a specified value (rising threshold), and resets the alarm at
another value (falling threshold). Alarms can be used with events; the alarm triggers an event,
which can generate a log entry or an SNMP trap.
Events—Determine the action to take when an event is triggered by an alarm. The action can
be to generate a log entry, an SNMP trap, or both.
Default RMON configuration
Table 27 lists the default RMON configuration.
RMON configuration procedures
In this section:
Configuring RMON alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Configuring RMON events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Configuring RMON Ethernet group statistics collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Display the current RMON status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
TABLE 27 Default RMON configuration
Parameter Default setting
RMON By default, no RMON alarms and events are
configured and RMON collection statistics are
not enabled.