Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide, NX-OS 4.0(1a)N1 (OL-16597-01, January 2009)

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Chapter 28 Configuring RMON
Verifying RMON Configuration
Configuring RMON Events
You can configure RMON events to associate with RMON alarms. You can reuse the same event with
multiple RMON alarms.
Ensure you have configured an SNMP user and enabled SNMP notifications (see the “Configuring
SNMP” section on page 27-5).
To configure RMON events, perform this task:
Verifying RMON Configuration
To display RMON configuration information, perform one of the following tasks:
RMON Example Configuration
This example creates a delta rising alarm on ifOutOctets and associates a notification event with this
alarm:
configure terminal
rmon alarm 1 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.17.83886080 5 delta rising-threshold 5 1 falling-threshold
0 owner test
rmon event 1 trap public
Command Purpose
Step 1
switch# configure terminal
Enters configuration mode.
Step 2
switch(config)# rmon event index
[description string] [log] [trap] [owner
name]
Configures an RMON event. The description string
and owner name can be any alphanumeric string.
Step 3
switch(config)# show rmon {alarms |
hcalarms}
(Optional) Displays information about RMON alarms
or high-capacity alarms.
Step 4
switch(config)# copy running-config
startup-config
(Optional) Saves this configuration change.
Command Purpose
show rmon alarms
Displays information about RMON alarms.
show rmon events
Displays information about RMON events.
show rmon hcalarms
Displays information about RMON hcalarms.
show rmon logs
Displays information about RMON logs.