Avaya C460 SMON - Manual (Page 9)

Avaya C460 SMON User Guide 1
1 SMON Overview
This chapter describes SMON, Avaya Inc.’s switched network monitoring
system. This chapter includes the following sections:
• What is RMON - A brief description of the RMON standard.
• What is SMON - A general description of SMON switch
monitoring technology.
• Overview of SMON - An introduction to SMON.
• Device SMON Tools - The Device SMON tools and how they
function.
• AnyLayer SMON Tools - The anylayer SMON tool and how
they function.
What is RMON
RMON is the internationally recognized and approved standard for
detailed analysis of shared Ethernet and Token Ring media. It ensures
consistency in the monitoring and display of statistics between different
vendors.
RMON’s advanced remote networking capabilities provide the tools
needed to monitor and analyze the behavior of segments on a network.
In conjunction with an RMON agent, RMON gathers details and logical
information about network status, performance, and users running
applications on the network.
An RMON agent is a probe that collects information about segments,
hosts, and traffic, and sends it to a management station.
The network administrator uses software tools to view the information
collected by the RMON agent on the management station.