Rmon support, Enable rmon only on ports you want to monitor in t, Enabling rmon objects – Allied Telesis FORMULA 8200 User Manual

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FORMULA 8200 User’s Guide

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RMON Support

Note

Enable RMON only on ports you want to monitor in this instance.
Once you are done monitoring, turn off or disable RMON activities to
maintain peak switch performance.

Enabling

RMON Objects

The following is an example of enabling the RMON groups Statistics,
History, Alarm and Event groups. This example show the setting of a

Rising Alarm

Absolute Value

that gets logged to the

Event Group. The alarm Variable is the object

icmpInMsgs.0

, with

a threshold of 600 messages. Port 5 of the FORMULA 8200 is used in
this example (

ifIndex.5

). Use your SNMP management station to

set the objects.

set etherStatsStatus.5 "createRequest"

set etherStatsDataSource.5 "ifIndex.5"

set etherStatsOwner.5 "Owner"

set etherStatsStatus.5 "valid"

set historyControlStatus.5 "createRequest"

set historyControlDataSource.5 "ifIndex.5"

set historyControlOwner.5 "Owner"

set historyControlStatus.5 "valid"

set eventStatus.5 "createRequest"

set eventDescription.5 "icmpInMsg.0 = 600"

set eventType.5 "log"

set eventOwner.5 "Owner"

set eventStatus.5 "valid"

set alarmStatus.5 "createRequest"

set alarmInterval.5 "1"

set alarmVariable.5 "icmpInMsgs.0"

set alarmSampleType.5 "absoluteValue"

set alarmStartupAlarm.5 "risingAlarm"

set alarmRisingThreshold.5 "600"

set alarmFallingThreshold.5 "0"

set alarmRisingEventIndex.5 "5"

set alarmFallingEventIndex.5 "5"

set alarmOwner.5 "Owner"

set alarmStatus.5 "valid"