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Overview

The Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) MIB is an interface between the RMON agent on the Passport 8000 Series switch and an RMON management application, such as the Device Manager. It defines objects that are suitable for the management of any type of network, but some groups are targeted for Ethernet networks in particular. Enabling RMON on the switch allows the RMON agent to continuously collect statistics and proactively monitor switch performance. This data can then be viewed using Device Manager or the CLI.

RMON has three major functions:

• Creating and displaying alarms for user-defined events
• Gathering cumulative statistics for Ethernet interfaces
• Tracking a history of statistics for Ethernet interfaces
  
  

  Note: Before using RMON functions, you must globally enable RMON. In addition, you should specify certain options to control how RMON operates on the switch.

  
  

• Enabling RMON globally
• Enabling RMON statistics (default)
• Enabling RMON statistics (nondefault)
• Verifying RMON statistics
• Disabling RMON history