Asante Technologies 5212 user manual Advanced Management, Rmon Overview Benefits

Advanced Management

Advanced Management

RMON Overview

Benefits of

RMON

RMON stands for remote monitoring. It is a standard for moni- toring and reporting network activity using remote monitors.

You can use RMON via the switch’s Local Management Inter- face or via any SNMP-based network management software that supports RMON.

A typical RMON setup consists of two components:

❏The RMON probe — a device or software agent that continually collects statistics about a LAN segment and transfers the information to a man- agement workstation (either on request or when a pre-defined threshold is crossed).

❏The management workstation — a network sta- tion that communicates with the RMON probe and collects 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.

Some of the benefits of using RMON are:

❏Improved effi ciency — you can remain at one workstation and collect information from widely dispersed LAN segments.

❏Productive management — if configured cor- rectly, RMON probes can deliver information before problems occur.

❏Reduces load on the network and the manage-

ment station — an RMON probe looks at the net- work on behalf of the network management station without affecting the characteristics and performance of the network.

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