HP 2500 manual Advanced Management Rmon and HP Extended Rmon Support

Configuring for Network Management Applications

Advanced Management: RMON and HP Extended RMON Support

Advanced Management: RMON and HP Extended RMON Support

The switch supports RMON (Remote Monitoring) and HP Extended RMON on all connected network segments. This allows for troubleshooting and optimizing your network.

RMON

The following RMON groups are supported:

■Ethernet Statistics (except the numbers of packets of different frame sizes)

■Alarm

■History (of the supported Ethernet statistics)

■Event

The RMON agent automatically runs in the switch. Use the RMON manage- ment station on your network to enable or disable specific RMON traps and events. Note that you can access the Ethernet statistics, Alarm, and Event groups from the HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches network management software. For more on TopTools, see the "Read Me First" document shipped with your switch and also available on HP’s ProCurve website at

http://www.hp.com/go/procurve

Extended RMON

Extended RMON provides network monitoring and troubleshooting informa- tion that analyzes traffic from a network-wide perspective. Extended RMON notifies you about network problems and identifies the end node at fault. That information can be used to set up RMON to study the problem more closely, if desired. Because it is based on detailed statistical sampling, Extended RMON lessens the load on devices and network bandwidth. The Extended RMON agent runs automatically on the switch. To use Extended RMON, simply use Traffic Monitor (included with HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches) on your network management station to enable sampling on the ports you want to monitor.

Monitoring and Managing the Switch

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