Deployment Guide

Remote Monitoring (RMON)

RMON is an industry-standard implementation that monitors network trac by sharing network monitoring information.

RMON provides both 32-bit and 64-bit monitoring facility and long-term statistics collection on Dell Networking Ethernet interfaces.

RMON operates with the simple network management protocol (SNMP) and monitors all nodes on a local area network (LAN) segment.

RMON monitors trac passing through the router and segment trac not destined for the router. The monitored interfaces may be

chosen by using alarms and events with standard management information bases (MIBs).

Topics:

• Implementation Information

• Fault Recovery

Implementation Information

Congure SNMP prior to setting up RMON.

For a complete SNMP implementation description, refer to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Conguring RMON requires using the RMON CLI and includes the following tasks:

• Setting the rmon Alarm

• Conguring an RMON Event

• Conguring RMON Collection Statistics

• Conguring the RMON Collection History

• Enabling an RMON MIB Collection History Group

RMON implements the following standard request for comments (RFCs) (for more information, refer to the Standards Compliance

chapter).

• RFC-2819

• RFC-3273

• RFC-3434

• RFC-4502

Fault Recovery

RMON provides the following fault recovery functions.

Interface Down — When an RMON-enabled interface goes down, monitoring continues. However, all data values are registered as

0xFFFFFFFF (32 bits) or ixFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (64 bits). When the interface comes back up, RMON monitoring processes resumes.

NOTE

: A network management system (NMS) should be ready to interpret a down interface and plot the interface performance

graph accordingly.

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