Specifications

9031280 E4
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Preface
This manual describes the RMON Management Module, which allows you to collect, manage, and
monitor information about a remote LAN segment.
Who Should Read This Manual
Read this manual if you are going to use the RMON Management Module to
analyze networks that have been modeled in SPECTRUM. Before reading this
document, you should be familiar with SPECTRUM’s functions as described in
the SPECTRUM System User’s Guide and the SPECTRUM System
Administrator’s Guide.
How This Manual Is Organized
The Management Module Guide for Standard RMON is organized into the
following chapters and appendices.
• Chapter 1—Introduces the RMON Management Module, its features, and
its model types.
• Chapter 2—Explains how to model and configure RMON in SPECTRUM.
• Chapter 3—Describes how you can use the Profile Load/Unload facility to
customize control table information.
• Chapter 4—Describes the icon components for the RMONApp,
RMONEthProbe, and RMONTRProbe models.
• Chapter 5—Describes the Icon Subviews menu selections for RMON.
• Chapter 6—Explains how to configure RMON alarms and events.
• Chapter 7—Explains how to create IndirectRMON models.
• Appendix A—Describes Ethernet fields and statistics displayed in the
RMON tables.
• Appendix B—Describes Token Ring fields and statistics displayed in the
RMON tables.
• Appendix C—Describes SpectroWATCH’s Watch Information report.