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Configuring RMON
Finding Feature Information
Your software release may not support all the features documented in this chapter. For the latest feature
information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release.
Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support an d Cisco software image
support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on
Cisco.com is not required.

Prerequisites for RMON

You must configure SNMP on the switch to access RMON MIB objects.
We recommend that you use a generic RMON console application on the network management
station (NMS) to take advantage of the RMON network management capabilities.

Restrictions for RMON

64-bit counters are not supported for RMON alarms.

Information About RMON

RMON

RMON is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard monitoring specification that allows
various network agents and console systems to exchange network monitoring data. You can use the
RMON feature with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent in the switch to monitor
all the traffic flowing among switches on all connected LAN segments as shown in Figure 34-1.