Remote Monitoring (Rmon); Implementation Information; Fault Recovery - Dell Z9000 Configuration Manual

Remote Monitoring (RMON)

Remote monitoring (RMON) is supported on the Z9000 platform.
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).

Implementation Information

Configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON.
For a complete SNMP implementation description, refer to
(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
• RFC-2819
• RFC-3273
• RFC-3434

Fault Recovery

RMON provides the following fault recovery functions.
• Interface Down — When an RMON-enabled interface goes down, monitoring continues. However, all
data values are registered as 0xFFFFFFFF (32 bits) or ixFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (64 bits). When the interface
comes back up, RMON monitoring processes resumes.
NOTE: A network management system (NMS) should be ready to interpret a down interface and
plot the interface performance graph accordingly.
• Line Card Down — The same as Interface Down (see previous).
• RPM Down, RPM Failover — Master and standby route processor modules (RPMs) run the RMON
sampling process in the background. Therefore, when an RPM goes down, the other RPM maintains
the sampled data — the new master RPM provides the same sampled data as did the old master — as
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