Avaya C460 SMON manual What is Smon

Chapter 1

RMON has two levels:

•RMON I analyzes the MAC layer (Layer 2 in the OSI seven-layer model).

•RMON II analyzes the upper layers (Layers 3 and above).

RMON is an industry standard that Avaya Inc. and other companies have adopted in their network management applications. SMON takes the RMON standard and extends it to the switching environment.

What is SMON

SMON is an extension of the RMON standard. SMON adds to the monitoring capabilities of RMON in the following ways:

•It provides additional tools and features for monitoring in the switch environment.

•It provides a global view of traffic flow in a network with multiple switches.

Device SMON extends RMON I for the MAC layer, and AnyLayer SMON extends RMON II for the network layer and above. SMON monitoring collects and displays data in real-time.

Using SMON monitoring, you can get:

•A global view of traffic for all switches on the network.

•An overall view of traffic passing through a specific switch.

•Detailed data about the hosts transmitting packets through a switch.

•An analysis of traffic passing through each port connected to a switch.

•A view of traffic between various hosts connected to a switch.

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