3Com 9100 manual On the network, Rmon features supported by the switch, Clear Counters

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Table 34 Logging Commands (continued)

Command		Description
clear	counters	Clears all switch statistics and port counters.
clear	log {static}	Clears the log. If static is specified, the critical
		log messages are also cleared.

RMON	Using the Remote Monitoring (RMON) capabilities of the switch allows
	network administrators to improve system efficiency and reduce the load
	on the network.
	The following sections explain more about the RMON concept and the
	RMON features supported by the switch.
	You can only use the RMON features of the system if you have an RMON
	management application, such as the RMON application supplied with
	3Com Transcend® Enterprise Manager software, and have enabled
	RMON on the switch.
	About RMON RMON is the common abbreviation for the Remote Monitoring
	Management Information Base (MIB) system defined by the Internet
	Engineering Task Force (IETF) documents RFC 1271 and RFC 1757, which
	allows you to monitor LANs remotely.

A typical RMON setup consists of the following two components:

■RMON probe — An intelligent, remotely controlled device or software agent that continually collects statistics about a LAN segment or VLAN. The probe transfers the information to a management workstation on request, or when a predefined threshold is crossed.

■Management workstation — Communicates with the RMON probe and collects the statistics from it. The workstation does not have to be on the same network as the probe, and can manage the probe by in-band or out-of-band connections.