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Remote Monitoring (RMON)

Overview

This chapter describes remote monitoring (RMON). This chapter includes the following sections:

• Implementation

• Fault Recovery

RMON is an industry-standard implementation that monitors network traffic by sharing network

monitoring information. RMON provides both 32-bit and 64-bit monitoring facility and long-term

statistics collection on Dell Force10 Ethernet interfaces.

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

segment. RMON monitors traffic passing through the router and segment traffic not destined for the router.

The monitored interfaces may be chosen by using alarms and events with standard management

information base (MIBs).

Implementation

You must configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON. For a complete SNMP implementation description,

refer to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Configuring RMON requires using the RMON command line interface (CLI) and includes the following

tasks:

• Set the RMON Alarm

• Configure an RMON Event

• Configure RMON Collection Statistics

• Configure RMON Collection History

• Enable an RMON MIB Collection History Group