Avaya P120 SMON manual SMON Devices, Filtering Options, Specific Filtering TopN Filtering

Chapter 1

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.

SMON Devices

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

Filtering Options

SMON tools provide different methods of filtering the information displayed on the screen. These method include:

•Specific filtering

•TopN filtering

Specific Filtering

TopN Filtering

For information on how to use filters, refer to Appendix A, SMON Dialog Boxes.

Specific filtering options provide the ability to specify the switches, VLANs, or ports for which you want to view SMON information.

TopN filtering provides the ability to filter information based on the amount of a particular type of traffic being monitored. When using TopN filtering, specify the number of switches, VLANs, or ports for which you want to view SMON information. Then select a statistic which will be used as the basis for the filtering.

Using TopN filtering you can, for example, view information on only the top 5 most active ports, or on the 8 switches generating the most error traffic.

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