Remote Monitoring (RMON) | 76337Remote Monitoring (RMON)Remote Monitoring (RMON) is supported on platform: e c s zThis chapter describes the Remote Monitoring (RMON):• Implementation• Fault RecoveryRemote Monitoring (RMON) is an industry-standard implementation that monitors network traffic bysharing network monitoring information. RMON provides both 32-bit and 64-bit monitoring facility andlong-term statistics collection on Dell Force10Ethernet Interfaces.RMON operates with SNMP and monitors all nodes on a LAN segment. RMON monitors traffic passingthrough the router and segment traffic not destined for the router. The monitored interfaces may be chosenby using alarms and events with standard MIBs.ImplementationYou must configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON. For a complete SNMP implementation discussion,refer to Chapter 6, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).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 groupRMON implements the following standard RFCs (for details see Appendix 50, Standards Compliance):• RFC-2819• RFC-3273• RFC-3434
