Netw420 Week 5
RMON and RMON Probes
RMON and RMON Probes
Devry University Advanced Network Management with Lab 06/09/2013
Abstract
On this paper I will be talking about and describing the definition of the RMON (Remote Network Monitoring) and how RMON probes are utilized in the network management system to help manager to better manage the network.
RMON and RMON Probes
Short for remote monitoring, RMON is a network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single workstation. The RMON has been specially designed to help network manager to understand the operation of the network as a whole and as an individual devices (switches, routers, hosts,) and how its affect its mode of operation. RMON provides network administrators with more freedom in selecting network-monitoring probes and consoles with features that meet their particular networking needs. RMON was defined by the user community with the help of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It became a proposed standard in 1992 as RFC 1271 (for Ethernet) and then became a draft standard in 1995 as RFC 1757, effectively obsoleting RFC 1271.
The RMON standard was developed in order to resolve issues that other management protocols were not able to handle it properly and can be supported by hardware monitoring devices (known as "probes") or through software or some kind of combination. “For example, any vendor LAN switches includes software in each switch that can trap information as traffic flows through and record it in its MIB. A software agent can gather the information for presentation to the network administrator with a graphical user interface. A number of vendors provide products with various kinds of RMON support.
RMON collects nine kinds of information, including packets sent, bytes sent, packets dropped, statistics by host, by conversations between two sets of addresses, and
RMON and RMON Probes
Devry University Advanced Network Management with Lab 06/09/2013
Abstract
On this paper I will be talking about and describing the definition of the RMON (Remote Network Monitoring) and how RMON probes are utilized in the network management system to help manager to better manage the network.
RMON and RMON Probes
Short for remote monitoring, RMON is a network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single workstation. The RMON has been specially designed to help network manager to understand the operation of the network as a whole and as an individual devices (switches, routers, hosts,) and how its affect its mode of operation. RMON provides network administrators with more freedom in selecting network-monitoring probes and consoles with features that meet their particular networking needs. RMON was defined by the user community with the help of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It became a proposed standard in 1992 as RFC 1271 (for Ethernet) and then became a draft standard in 1995 as RFC 1757, effectively obsoleting RFC 1271.
The RMON standard was developed in order to resolve issues that other management protocols were not able to handle it properly and can be supported by hardware monitoring devices (known as "probes") or through software or some kind of combination. “For example, any vendor LAN switches includes software in each switch that can trap information as traffic flows through and record it in its MIB. A software agent can gather the information for presentation to the network administrator with a graphical user interface. A number of vendors provide products with various kinds of RMON support.
RMON collects nine kinds of information, including packets sent, bytes sent, packets dropped, statistics by host, by conversations between two sets of addresses, and
References: * Clemm, A. Network Management Fundamentals Edition 1 (1st ed). Pearson Learning Solutions. Retrieved from http://devry.vitalsource.com/books/9781256084068/id/ch02lev2sec9 * Waldbusser, S. ((2000, May)2000, May). Rfc 2819. Retrieved from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2819 * Rouse, M. ((2010, November)2010, November). Rmon (remote network monitoring). Retrieved from http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/RMON * Javvin. (n.d.). Rmon: remote monitoring mibs (rmon1 and rmon2). Retrieved from http://www.javvin.com/protocolRMON.html