Configuring Rmon Monitoring; Rmon Overview; Rmon Cli Commands - Avaya G350 Administration

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Configuring RMON monitoring

This chapter provides information on monitoring the G350 and includes the following sections:
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RMON overview

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RMON CLI commands

monitoring on the G350
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RMON configuration examples
RMON overview
RMON, the internationally recognized network monitoring standard, is a network management protocol
that allows network information to be gathered at a single workstation. You can use RMON probes to
monitor and analyze a single segment only. When you deploy a switch on the network, there are
additional components in the network that cannot be monitored using RMON. These components include
the switch fabric, VLAN, and statistics for all ports.
RMON is the internationally recognized and approved standard for detailed analysis of shared Ethernet
media. It ensures consistency in the monitoring and display of statistics between different vendors.
RMON's advanced remote networking capabilities provide the tools needed to monitor and analyze the
behavior of segments on a network. In conjunction with an RMON agent, RMON gathers details and
logical information about network status, performance and users running applications on the network.
An RMON agent is a probe that collects information about segments, hosts and traffic and sends the
information to a management station. You use specific software tools to view the information collected
by the RMON agent on the management station.
You can configure Remote Monitoring (RMON) for switching on the Avaya G350 Media Gateway. The
G350 uses RMON I, which analyzes the MAC layer (Layer 2 in the OSI seven-layer model). You can
also configure a port to raise an SNMP trap whenever the port fails.
RMON CLI commands
Use the following commands to configure RMON. For more information about these commands, see
Avaya G350 Media Gateway CLI Reference, 555-245-202.
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Administration of the Avaya G350 Media Gateway
June 2004
— an overview of the RMON network monitoring standard
— a list and description of the CLI commands used to configure RMON
— examples of RMON configurations
command to create an RMON alarm entry.
rmon alarm
rmon event command to create an RMON event entry.
rmon history command to create an RMON history entry.
command to display all RMON alarm entries.
show rmon alarm
command to display RMON event entries.
show rmon event
command to display RMON alarm entries.
show rmon history
command to display RMON statistics.
show rmon statistics
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