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Creating a History (Nondefault)

You can use RMON to collect statistics at intervals. For example, if you wanted RMON statistics to be gathered over the weekend, you would want enough buckets to cover two days. To do this, you would set the history to gather one bucket over every hour, thus covering a 48-hour period. After you set history characteristics, you cannot modify them; you must delete the history and create another one.

To establish a history for a port and set the bucket interval:

  1. From the Device Manager menu bar, choose Rmon > Control.
  2. From the History tab, click Insert.
  3. The RmonControl, Insert History dialog box opens.
  4. Enter the Interval.
  5. Click Insert.


Item Description
Index
A unique value between 1 and 65535, assigned to each interface.
Port
Port from which statistics are gathered.
BucketsRequested
Number of buckets, or time intervals, when statistics are gathered from the switch. Default is 50.
BucketsGranted (found only in the History tab)
Number of buckets, or time intervals, when statistics were gathered from the switch.
Interval
The time interval, measured in seconds, between the switch gathering statistics. The default is 1800 seconds, which equals 30 minutes.
Owner
A unique name or, as a default, the host name on which the Device Manager software is running will be entered.


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