Using Network Monitoring in Your Network

S- K- and 7100-Series network monitoring features support for:

• Console/Telnet based monitoring:
  • Display contents and determine the size of the command history buffer
  • Close an active console port or Telnet session
• Network Diagnostics:
  • Determine the availability of another node on the network (ping)
  • Display a hop‐by‐hop path through an IP network (traceroute)
  • Query name servers (nslookup)
• Display of switch network connections:
  • Display statistics for the active connections on the switch
  • Display switch users
  • Send a message to switch user
• SMON statistics:
  • Monitor SMON priority and VLAN statistics counting
• RMON:
  • Record statistics measured by the RMON probe for each monitored interface on the device.
  • Record periodic statistical samples from a network.
  • Periodically gather statistical samples from variables in the probe and compares them with previously configured thresholds.
  • Record statistics associated with each host discovered on the network.
  • Control the generation and notification of events from the device.
  • Generate tables that describe hosts that top a list ordered by one of their statistics.
  • Record statistics for conversations between two IP addresses.
  • Allow packets to be matched by a filter equation.
  • Allow packets to be captured upon a filter match.