Netgear XCM8806 - 8800 SERIES 6-SLOT CHASSIS SWITCH 사용자 설명서

Management workstation

An RMON agent is an intelligent software agent that continually monitors port statistics and 
system variables. The agent transfers the information to a management workstation on 
request, or when a predefined threshold is crossed. 

Information collected by RMON includes Ethernet port statistics and history and the software 
version and hardware revision of the device. RMON generates alarms when threshold levels 
are met and then logs those events to the log. RMON can also send traps to the destination 
address configured by the management workstation. You can also use RMON to trigger a 
system reboot.

A management workstation communicates with the RMON agent and collects the statistics 
from it. The workstation does not have to be on the same network as the RMON agent and 
can manage the agent by in-band or out-of-band connections. 

If you enable RMON on the switch, you can use a management workstation to review port 
statistics and port history, no configuration of the management workstation is necessary. 
However, you must use a management workstation to configure the alarm and event entries. 

Supported RMON Groups of the Switch 

The IETF defines nine groups of Ethernet RMON statistics. The switch supports the following 
four of these groups, as defined in RFC 1757: 

Statistics 

History 

Alarms 

Events 

The switch also supports the following parameters for configuring the RMON agent and the 
trap destination table, as defined in RFC 2021:

probeCapabilities

probeSoftwareRev

probeHardwareRev

probeDateTime

probeResetControl

trapDestTable

The following sections describe the supported groups, the RMON probe configuration 
parameters, and the trap destination parameter in greater detail.