Users Guide

Remote Monitoring (RMON)

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 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 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 bases (MIBs).

Topics:

• Implementation Information

• Fault Recovery

Implementation Information

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 CLI and includes the following tasks:

• Setting the rmon Alarm

• Configuring an RMON Event

• Configuring RMON Collection Statistics

• Configuring the RMON Collection History

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

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