Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Administration Guide

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Configuring RMON
This chapter describes how to configure Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) on your Catalyst 4500
series switch. RMON is a standard monitoring specification that defines a set of statistics and functions
that can be exchanged between RMON-compliant console systems and network probes. RMON provides
you with comprehensive network-fault diagnosis, planning, and performance-tuning information.
This chapter consists of these sections:
• About RMON, page 70-1
• Configuring RMON, page 70-3
• Displaying RMON Status, page 70-6
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, see the Cisco
Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
If a command is not in the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference, you can locate it in the
Cisco IOS library. See the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference and related
publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/index.html
About RMON
RMON is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard monitoring specification that allows
various network agents and console systems to exchange network monitoring data. You can use the
RMON feature with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent in the switch to monitor
all the traffic flowing among switches on all connected LAN segments.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E