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Remote Monitoring (RMON)

Remote Monitoring (RMON) is supported on the S5000 switch.

This chapter describes the Remote Monitoring (RMON):

• Implementation

• Fault Recovery

Remote Monitoring (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 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 MIBs.

Implementation

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

refer to Chapter 6, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Configuring RMON requires using the RMON CLI and includes the following tasks:

• Setting rmon alarm

• Configuring an RMON event

• Configuring RMON collection statistics

• Configuring RMON collection history

• Enabling an RMON MIB collection history group

RMON implements the following standard RFCs (for details see Chapter 57, Standards Compliance):

• RFC-2819

• RFC-3273

• RFC-3434