Configuring RMON alarm settings

About this task

To configure RMON alarms and events, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode.

Procedure

Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode.
```
device# configure terminal
```

Configure the RMON alarms.

Example of an alarm that tests every sample for a rising threshold

device(config)# rmon alarm 5 1.3.6.1.2.1.16.1.1.1.5.65535 interval 30 
                         absolute rising-threshold 95 event 27 owner john_smith

Example of an alarm that tests the delta between samples for a falling threshold

device(config)# rmon alarm 5 1.3.6.1.2.1.16.1.1.1.5.65535 interval 10 delta	
                         falling-threshold 65 event 42 owner john_smith

Return to privileged EXEC mode.
```
device(config)# end
```
Save the running-config file to the startup-config file.
```
device# copy running-config startup-config
```
To view configured alarms, use the show running-config rmon alarm command.