HP 9304M, 9308M 2.10.1 MIB Support, 2.10.2 RMON Support, 2.10.4 Console Support, 2.10.3 Network Monitoring Port

HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Reviewer’s Guide

2.10.1 MIB Support

The HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M/ 9308M supports the following standard MIBs:

• MIB-II (RFC 1213)

• Ether-like MIB (RFC 1398)

• Bridge MIB (RFC 1493)

• Ethernet-like MIB (RFC 1643)

• RMON MIB (RFC 1757)

Groups: (1) Ethernet statistics, (2) Ethernet history, (3) Alarm, (9) Event,

In addition, a number of enterprise-specific MIBs are also supported for such things as VLANs, and multiple bridge groups.

2.10.2 RMON Support

For those customers that use RMON applications, the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M / 9308M support RMON groups 1 (Ethernet statistics), 2 (Ethernet history), 3 (Alarm), and 9 (Event). These four groups are available for all ports.

The Ethernet statistics group provides counters for packet counts, broadcast/multicast packets, packet length counts, missed packets and erred packets. Event and Alarm groups allow threshold setting and alarm generation based on the counters in the Ethernet group. History accumulates two records for each port, one a sampling of Ethernet statistics taken every 30 seconds and the other a sampling of statistics taken every 30 minutes.

2.10.3 Network Monitoring Port

If more RMON groups (such as packet capture) are desired, a RMON probe can be attached to one of the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M / 9308M ports and Port Monitoring can be configured into the routing switch. Port Monitoring allows the end user to copy all traffic (inbound, outbound or both) from any number of ports (even those on different router ports) to a single destination port. This allows the probe to see all traffic on the selected ports to provide the probe with the proper global perspective.

LAN analyzers can also use this feature when doing specific monitoring or troubleshooting of network segments.

2.10.4 Console Support

Out-of-band management of HP routing switches can be done through the RS-232 console port via a directly connected terminal emulator. The console interface provides a command line interface to all configuration parameters.

The console interface is also available in-band through the telnet service.

The RS-232 cable necessary to connect with the 9304M / 9308M is a “straight-through” type and is supplied with the routing switch. It is a different cable than that used with other HP switches.

The RS-232 port is not speed-sensing. Default configuration is set at 9600 baud.

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