Managing Faults on Virtual Services Platform 7200 Series and 8000 Series Version 5

Figure 1: OSI model and RMON
The RMON2 feature is a management information base (MIB) or a group of management objects
that you use to obtain or configure values using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Avaya supports a partial implementation of RMON2. The RMON2 feature adds the following MIBS:
protocol directory, protocol distribution, address map, network-layer host and application layer host
for the traffic passing through the (Control Processor) CP for these MIB tables.
The system only collects statistics for IP packets that pass through the CP. RMON2 does not
monitor packets on other interfaces processed on the switch that do not pass through the CP.
After you globally enable RMON2, you enable monitoring for individual devices. You identify the
network hosts for the system to monitor with a manual configuration on the interfaces you want to
monitor.
The RMON2 feature monitors a list of predefined protocols. The system begins to collect protocol
statistics immediately after you turn on RMON.
The RMON2 feature collects statistics on:
• Protocols predefined by the system.
• Address mapping between physical and network address on particular network hosts that you
configure for monitoring.
• Network host statistics for particular hosts on a network layer protocol (IP) that you configure
for monitoring.
• Application host statistics for a particular host on an application layer protocol that you
configure for monitoring.
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