Remote monitoring

Remote monitoring

Introduction

Remote Monitoring (RMON) allows network devices to exchange network monitoring data. RMON performs the following major functions:

Gathers cumulative statistics for Ethernet interfaces

Tracks a history of statistics for Ethernet interfaces

Creates and triggers alarms for user-defined events

Overview

The RMON MIB provides an interface between the RMON agent on the switch and an RMON management application. The RMON MIB is described in RFC 1757.

The RMON standard defines objects that are suitable for the management of Ethernet networks. The RMON agent continuously collects statistics and proactively monitors switch performance. RMON allows you to monitor traffic flowing through the switch.

The switch supports the following RMON Groups, as described in RFC 1757:

Group 1: Statistics

Group 2: History

Group 3: Alarms

Group 9: Events

RMON group 1—statistics

The switch supports collection of Ethernet statistics as outlined in the RMON statistics MIB, in reference to etherStatsTable. You can enable RMON statistics on a per-port basis, and you can view them using the following command: /stat/port x/rmon. RMON statistics are sampled every second, and new data overwrites any old data on a given port.

NOTE: RMON port statistics must be enabled for the port before you can view RMON statistics.

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