RMON

Remote monitoring. RMON is a standardized method to make switch and router information available to remote monitoring applications. It is an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered remotely. RMON collects statistics and enables a management station to monitor network devices from a central location. It provides multivendor interoperability between monitoring devices and management stations. RMON is described in several RFCs (among them IETF RFC 1757 and RFC 2201).

Network administrators use RMON to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot the network. A software agent can gather the information for presentation to the network administrator with a graphical user interface (GUI). The administrator can find out how much bandwidth each user is using and what web sites are being accessed; you can also set alarms to be informed of potential network problems.