446CHAPTER 10: RMON

Community String

The Community field is initialized to the read/write community string specified for the device in the 3Com Network Director Properties dialog box. See “Viewing Device Details” on page 229.

Clicking Edit launches the Edit Community dialog box, which allows you to specify an alternative community string to be used to retrieve RMON data from the selected device.

View

The selected View determines the data that will be displayed when the RMONView window is launched. Clicking on Edit/Create View allows you to select what data will be displayed in the view. The supplied predefined views are:

Table 77 Predefined Views

Predefined View

Definition

 

 

All

All items in the RMON matrix group

Byte

Octets sent between pairs of hosts

 

seen by the device

Error

Error packets sent between pairs of

 

hosts seen by the device

Packet

Packets sent between pairs of hosts

 

seen by the device.

 

 

Stations

The Stations list allows you limit the displayed RMON matrix data to that associated with specific hosts on the network. If the Stations list is empty data will be collected for all hosts seen by the device. If the Stations list has at least one entry, data shown will be only for conversations involving listed hosts.

Matrix Flow

Determines whether to display the retrieved matrix data sorted by destination MAC address followed by source MAC address (Destination > Source) or by source address followed by destination MAC address (Source > Destination). This option is useful if you want to view data to a specified host in the Stations list, or from a specified station.

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