Chapter 25 Configuring Rmon; Understanding Rmon - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Configuration Manual

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Configuring RMON

This chapter describes how to configure Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) on your Catalyst 2950

or Catalyst 2955 switch. RMON is a standard monitoring specification that defines a set of statistics and

functions that can be exchanged between RMON-compliant console systems and network probes.

RMON provides you with comprehensive network-fault diagnosis, planning, and performance-tuning

information.

For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, see the Cisco IOS

Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference for Cisco IOS Release 12.1.

This chapter consists of these sections:

RMON is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard monitoring specification that allows

various network agents and console systems to exchange network monitoring data. You can use the

RMON feature with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent in the switch to monitor

all the traffic flowing among switches on all connected LAN segments.

Understanding RMON, page 25-1

Configuring RMON, page 25-2

Displaying RMON Status, page 25-6

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