3Com 2928 User Guide - Page 121
RMON, RMON Overview, Working Mechanism
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1 RMON RMON Overview Remote Monitoring (RMON) is used to realize the monitoring and management from the management devices to the managed devices on the network by implementing such functions as statistics and alarm. The statistics function enables a managed device to periodically or continuously track various traffic information on the network segments connecting to its ports, such as total number of received packets or total number of oversize packets received. The alarm function enables a managed device to monitor the value of a specified MIB variable, log the event and send a trap to the management device when the value reaches the threshold, such as the port rate reaches a certain value or the potion of broadcast packets received in the total packets reaches a certain value. Both the RMON protocol and the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) are used for remote network management: z RMON is implemented on the basis of the SNMP, which is thus enhanced. RMON sends traps to the management device to notify the abnormality of the alarm variables by using the SNMP trap packet sending mechanism. Although trap is also defined in SNMP, it is usually used to notify the management device whether some functions on managed devices operate normally and the change of physical status of interfaces. Traps in RMON and those in SNMP have different monitored targets, triggering conditions, and report contents. z RMON provides an efficient means of monitoring subnets and allows SNMP to monitor remote network devices in a more proactive and effective way. The RMON protocol defines that when an alarm threshold is reached on a managed device, the managed device sends a trap to the management device automatically, so the management device has no need to get the values of MIB variables for multiple times and compare them, and thus greatly reducing the communication traffic between the management device and the managed device. In this way, you can manage a large scale of network easily and effectively. Working Mechanism RMON allows multiple monitors (management devices). A monitor provides two ways of data gathering: z Using RMON probes. Management devices can obtain management information from RMON probes directly and control network resources. In this approach, management devices can obtain all RMON MIB information. z Embedding RMON agents in network devices such as routers, switches, and hubs to provide the RMON probe function. Management devices exchange data with RMON agents using basic SNMP operations to gather network management information, which, due to system resources limitation, may not cover all MIB information but four groups of information, statistics, history, alarm, and event, in most cases. The 3Com device adopts the second way and realizes the RMON agent function. With the RMON agent function, the management device can monitor all the traffic flowing among the managed devices on all connected LAN segments; obtain information about error statistics and performance statistics for network management. 1-1