Hosttopn Group; Matrix Group; 3Com Transcend Rmon Agents - 3Com Corebuilder 6000 Software Installation And Release Notes

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The HostTopN group prepares reports describing hosts that top a list
ordered by one of their statistics. Information from this group includes:
Number of received packets
Number of transmitted packets
Number of received octets
Number of transmitted octets
Number of transmitted broadcast packets
Number of transmitted multicast packets
The Matrix group records statistics on conversations between sets of
addresses. The information available from this group includes:
Number of packets transmitted from the source address to the destination
address
Number of octets, excluding errors, transmitted from the source address to
the destination address
Number of bad packets transmitted from source to destination
RMON requires one probe per LAN segment. Because a segment is a
portion of the LAN separated by a bridge or router, the cost of
implementing many probes in a large network can be high.
To solve this problem, 3Com has built an inexpensive RMON probe into the
Transcend SmartAgent software in each CoreBuilder 6000 system. This
probe allows you to deploy RMON widely around the network at a cost of
no more than that for traditional network monitors.
Placing probe functionality inside the CoreBuilder 6000 system has these
advantages:
You can integrate RMON with normal device management.
The CoreBuilder system can manage conditions proactively.
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