Table Of Contents
CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
Starting CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
Navigating in CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
Setting Up CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
Configuring a System
Setting Up Alarm Thresholds
Enabling Statistics Collection on Ethernet Ports
Setting Up Historical Statistics Collection
CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager provides web-enabled, real-time, remote monitoring (RMON) information to users to facilitate troubleshooting and improve network availability. Used in conjunction with certain Cisco devices, CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager provides visibility into network issues/problems before they become critical. To use this application, you must first install the Mini-RMON patch, which makes the necessary updates to the CiscoView engine and installs the CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager device package. See Device Packages for more information.
This section contains the following topics:
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Starting CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
•Navigating in CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
•Setting Up CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
Starting CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
Step 1 Click Mini-RMON from one of the following three locations:
•From a device's chassis view, the CiscoView Options bar.
•From the CiscoWorks homepage, the CiscoView tab.
•From Device Center, the Functions Available pane.
The CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager Overview page appears.
Step 2 Do one of the following in the Device Selector pane:
•From the list of all devices managed by the Device and Credential Admin (DCA), navigate to and select the device you want to monitor.
Note The DCA displays only those devices which are supported by CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager.
•In the text field at the top of the pane, enter the IP address of the device you want to monitor and then click Go. The SNMP Credentials dialog box appears.
If you selected a device from the list, you can stop here. Otherwise, proceed to Step 3.
Step 3 Enter the appropriate SNMPV1/V2C or SNMPV3 credentials and then click OK.
Navigating in CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
After starting CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager, the application desktop opens.
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Device Selector
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Options bar
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Main window
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Tools bar
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Feature tabs
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Table 1 describes each component on the CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager desktop.
Table 1 CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager Desktop Component Descriptions
Component
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Description
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Device Selector
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Allows you to select which device to monitor. You can either enter the IP address of a device or select one from the list.
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Main window
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Displays the active page or dialog box.
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Feature tabs
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Serves as the launching point for the various threshold management and traffic monitoring pages.
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Options bar
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Displays the pages you can access when a particular function tab is selected.
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Tools bar
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Allows you to open the CiscoWorks homepage, access online help, or find out what CiscoView version is installed.
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Setting Up CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager
This section describes how to set up a device for monitoring with CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager. The following topics are provided:
•Configuring a System
•Setting Up Alarm Thresholds
•Enabling Statistics Collection on Ethernet Ports
•Setting Up Historical Statistics Collection
Configuring a System
From this page, you can enter general information for the monitored device.
Step 1 Select the Setup tab and then click System. The System Configuration page appears.
Step 2 Enter the appropriate information. See the "Configuring a System" topic in the CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager online help for descriptions of the provided fields.
Step 3 Click Apply.
Note By default, RMON functionality is enabled on Cisco IOS devices. However, this is not the case for Catalyst OS devices. If RMON functionality has not already been enabled on the device you want to monitor, you can enable it from this page.
Setting Up Alarm Thresholds
From the Create Alarm dialog box, you can create alarm thresholds. Each time a threshold is breached, a corresponding alarm event is generated.
Step 1 Select the Setup tab and then click Alarms. The Setup Alarm Thresholds page appears.
Step 2 At the bottom of the page, click Create to launch the Create Alarm dialog box.
Step 3 Enter the appropriate information. See the "Creating an Alarm" topic in the CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager online help for descriptions of the provided fields.
Step 4 Click OK.
Enabling Statistics Collection on Ethernet Ports
From this page, you can specify the Ethernet ports CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager will collect network traffic information for.
Step 1 Select the Setup tab and then click Statistics Collection. The Setup Statistics Collection on Ethernet Ports page appears.
Step 2 With a port selected in the Collection Status on Ethernet Ports table:
•Click Enable to enable statistics collection on that port.
•Click Disable to disable statistics collection on that port.
Setting Up Historical Statistics Collection
From the Enable History Collection on a Port dialog box, you can specify the settings for the collection of historical traffic statistics
Step 1 Select the Setup tab and then click Statistics History. The Setup Statistics History Collection on Ethernet Ports page appears.
Step 2 At the bottom of the page, click Create to launch the Enable History Collection on a Port dialog box.
Step 3 Select a port from the list and then enter the appropriate information. See the "Enabling History Collection on a Port" topic in the CiscoView Mini-RMON Manager online help for descriptions of the provided fields.
Step 4 Click OK.
