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C H A P T E R 1 5 Status Monitoring and Statistics
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RMON
Using the Remote Monitoring (RMON) capabilities of the switch
allows network administrators to improve system efficiency and
reduce the load on the network.
The following sections explain more about the RMON concept and
the RMON features supported by the switch.
You can only use the RMON features of the system if you have an
RMON management application, and have enabled RMON on the
switch.
About 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 1271 and
RFC 1757, which allows you to monitor LANs remotely.
A typical RMON setup consists of the following two components:
• RMON probe — An intelligent, remotely controlled device or
software agent that continually collects statistics about a LAN
segment or VLAN. The probe transfers the information to a
show log config Displays the log configuration, including the
syslog host IP address, the priority level of
messages being logged locally, and the priority
level of messages being sent to the syslog
host.
show log {<priority>} Displays the current snapshot of the log.
Options include:
•
priority
— Filters the log to display
message with the selected priority or higher
(more critical). Priorities include critical,
emergency, alert, error, warning, notice,
info, and debug. If not specified, all
messages are displayed.
Table 74: Logging Commands (continued)
Command Description