RMON Groups |
RMON Groups The CoreBuilder system supports seven of the RMON groups defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Table
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Statistics | 1 | Maintains utilization and error statistics for the |
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| segment being monitored |
History | 2 | Gathers and stores periodic statistical samples |
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| from the statistics group. |
Alarm | 3 | Allows you to define thresholds for any MIB |
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| variable and trigger an alarm. |
Host | 4 | Discovers new hosts on the network by |
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| keeping a list of source and destination |
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| physical addresses seen in good packets. |
HostTopN | 5 | Used to prepare reports that describe the |
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| hosts that top a list ordered by one of their |
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| statistics. |
Matrix | 6 | Stores statistics for conversations between |
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| pairs of addresses. |
Events | 9 | Allows you to define actions based on alarms. |
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| You can generate traps, log the alarm, or both. |
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RMON/FDDI Groups The CoreBuilder system supports the RMON/FDDI extensions specified in the AXON
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Group | Group Number | Purpose |
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axFDDI | axFDDI group 1 | Maintains utilization and error statistics for the |
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| segment being monitored |
axFDDIHistory | axFDDI group 2 | Gathers and stores periodic statistical samples |
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| from the statistics group. |
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