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Remote Monitoring
 is supported on platform 
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Remote Monitoring is supported on the E-Series ExaScale platform with FTOS 8.1.1.0 and later.
This chapter describes the Remote Monitoring (RMON):
Remote Monitoring (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 Force10 Ethernet Interfaces.
RMON operates with SNMP and monitors all nodes on a 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 MIBs.
Implementation
You must configure SNMP prior to setting up RMON. For a complete SNMP implementation discussion, 
refer to 
Chapter 6, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), on page 47
.
Configuring RMON requires using the RMON CLI and includes the following tasks:
RMON implements the following standard RFCs (for details see 
RFC-2819
RFC-3273
RFC-3434