What Is RMON?
F-2 Accessing and Configuring RMON Groups
What Is RMON?
RMON is a Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base (RMON
MIB). RMON gathers a wide variety of statistical information about network
operation. A typical network consists of multiple network segments with one RMON
agent connected to each segment. RMON gathers this information by examining each
packet passed on a network segment. Segment statistics are stored in counters within
the module. The counters are continuously updated and reset at powerup.
RMON also captures and stores network traffic information. RMON allows you to
examine these captured packets or sequences of packets to identify and isolate network
operational software or hardware problems.
A list of RMON features is described in Chapter 1.
NOTE
The online help includes management tasks and information for the RMON
Manager application.