Nortel Networks 214393-A manual Chapter RMON, Working with RMON information, Viewing statistics

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Chapter 8

RMON

The Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) MIB is an interface between the RMON agent on a BayStack 380-24F Gigabit Switch and an RMON management application, such as the Device Manager. It defines objects that are suitable for the management of any type of network, but some groups are targeted for Ethernet networks in particular. The RMON agent continuously collects statistics and proactively monitors switch performance. You can view this data through the Device Manager.

RMON has three major functions:

•Creating and displaying alarms for user-defined events

•Gathering cumulative statistics for Ethernet interfaces

•Tracking a history of statistics for Ethernet interfaces

Working with RMON information

You can view RMON information by looking at the Graph information associated with the port or chassis.

Viewing statistics

Device Manager gathers Ethernet statistics that you can have graphed in a variety of formats, or you can save them to a file and export the statistics to an outside presentation or graphing application.

To view RMON Ethernet statistics:

1Select an object (port).

Reference for the BayStack 380-24F Gigabit Switch Management Software