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Remote Monitoring (RMON)

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Remote Monitoring (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 Force10 Ethernet Interfaces.

RMON operates with SNMP and monitors all nodes on a 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 MIBs.

You must configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON. For a complete SNMP implementation discussion,

Chapter 6, Simple Network Management Protocol

Configuring RMON requires using the RMON CLI and includes the following tasks:

Set rmon alarm

Configure an RMON event

Configure RMON collection statistics

Configure RMON collection history

Enable an RMON MIB collection history group

RMON implements the following standard RFCs (for details see

is supported on platform:

Chapter 56, Standards

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Compliance):