RMON
ExtremeWare XOS 11.5 supports only the Summit X450 family of switches and the BlackDiamond 8800 series switch.
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Licensing
You need an Advanced Edge, Core, or Advanced Core license to configure and use the sFlow features
described in this chapter.
sFlow functionality is not available with an Edge license.
The BlackDiamond 10808 switch with an MSM-1 module or an MSM1-XL module ships with a Core or
Advanced Core license, respectively.
The BlackDiamond 12804 switch with an MSM-5 module or an MSM-5R module ships with a Core
license.
The BlackDiamond 8800 series switch (formerly known as Aspen), Summit X450 series switch, and
Summit X450a series switch ship with an Advanced Edge license.
The Summit X450e series switch ships with an Edge license, which does not support sFlow. You can,
however, upgrade to an Advanced Edge license that supports sFlow.
NOTE
If you have a Summit X450e series switch, you must upgrade to an Advanced Edge license to configure and use the
sFlow features described in this chapter.
For more information about software licensing, including how to obtain and upgrade your license, see
Chapter 1, “ExtremeWare XOS Overview,”
in the
ExtremeWare XOS Concepts Guide
.
RMON
RMON is the common abbreviation for the Remote Monitoring Management Information Base (MIB)
system defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documents RFC 1757 and RFC 2021,
which allows you to monitor LANs remotely.
Using the RMON capabilities of the switch allows network administrators to improve system efficiency
and reduce the load on the network.
The IETF defines nine groups of Ethernet RMON statistics. The switch supports the following four of
these groups, as defined in RFC 1757:
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Statistics
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History
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Alarms
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Events
The switch also supports the following parameters for configuring the RMON probe and the trap
destination table, as defined in RFC 2021:
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probeCapabilities
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probeSoftwareRev
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probeHardwareRev
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probeDateTime
