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Load Monitor
Running Load Monitor
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Figure 53 Load Monitor, extended RMON data
info sent
to ERM
info sent
to ERM
host
ERM
erm_rmond
shared
memory
erm_netmd
Load Monitor
network
host
X
display
X
➀ Agent Manager
starts Load Monitor
➁ Load Monitor
communicates with
the ERM (solid line)
If the display is not
local to Agent
Manager host, X
protocol traffic from
both Agent Manager
and Load Monitor will
travel on the network
➀
data
source info
network
monitoring
segment
ERM data Source
network
monitoring
segment
ERM data Source
ERM data sources
send network
information to the
ERM via SNMP traps
(dashed lines)
Load Monitor
retrieves statistics
only from the ERM; it
does not
communicate directly
with the ERM data
sources
Agent Manager
SNMP traffic➁
info sent
to ERM
network
monitoring
segment
ERM data Source
Extended RMON Module