Configuring and managing RMON

Both alarms and events are configurable RMON parameters.

• Alarms allow you to monitor a specific management information base (MIB) object for a specified interval, triggers an alarm at a specified value (rising threshold), and resets the alarm at another value (falling threshold). Alarms are paired with events; the alarm triggers an event, which can generate a log entry or an SNMP trap.
• Events determine the action to take when an event is triggered by an alarm. The action can be to generate a log entry, an SNMP trap, or both. You must define the events before an alarm can be configured. If you do not configure the RMON event first, you will receive an error when you configure the alarm settings.

By default, no RMON alarms and events are configured and RMON collection statistics are not enabled.