Avaya C460 SMON manual Overview of Smon, Smon Devices

SMON Overview

Overview of SMON

SMON is an RMON-compliant network management suite that implements the SMON extensions to RMON. SMON works with the other components of Avaya MultiService Network Manager to provide a full spectrum of in-depth monitoring of switch traffic and network performance.

SMON consists of a software console application on a workstation and remote monitoring probes in network devices that support SMON.

The SMON console communicates constantly with the SMON devices on your network. The console uses the SNMP protocol to gather information from the devices. SMON provides a suite of powerful graphic display tools to view this information.

SMON gives you detailed analysis of the traffic flow on your switched network, from a global view down to a specific host, and from total MAC layer traffic down to a specific application protocol - all in real-time.

In addition, SMON allows you to set alarms based on traffic thresholds. When an alarm is triggered, a trap can be sent to the device’s manager, and the event that triggered the alarm can be entered in SMON’s Event Log.

This section describes the following topics:

•SMON Devices

•Filtering Options

SMON Devices

SMON provides monitoring capabilities for Avaya Inc.’s network devices that support the SMON extensions of the RMON standard.

For Avaya C460 Devices, SMON monitoring capabilities can be activated by purchasing an SMON license from Avaya Inc.

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