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Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Remote monitoring (RMON) is supported on Dell Networking OS.
RMON is an industry-standard implementation that monitors network traffic by sharing network 
monitoring information. RMON provides both 32-bit and 64-bit monitoring facility and long-term 
statistics collection on Dell Networking Ethernet interfaces.
RMON operates with the simple network management protocol (SNMP) and monitors all nodes on a 
local area network (LAN) segment. RMON monitors traffic passing through the router and segment traffic 
not destined for the router. The monitored interfaces may be chosen by using alarms and events with 
standard management information bases (MIBs).
 
Implementation Information
Configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON.
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Configuring RMON requires using the RMON CLI and includes the following tasks:
RMON implements the following standard request for comments (RFCs) (for more information, refer to 
the 
 chapter).
• RFC-2819
• RFC-3273
• RFC-3434
• RFC-4502
Fault Recovery
RMON provides the following fault recovery functions.
• Interface Down — When an RMON-enabled interface goes down, monitoring continues. However, all 
data values are registered as 0xFFFFFFFF (32 bits) or ixFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (64 bits). When the interface 
comes back up, RMON monitoring processes resumes.
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