RMON (contd)
Functionality added: Promiscously count, filter and store packets
System that implements RMON MIB is called an RMON probe (or less frequently, an RMON agent).
- No changes to SNMP protocol.
- Enhance the manager and agents only.
RMON MIB organization:
- Control table: read-write. Configures what parameters should be logged and how often.
- Data table: read-only (statistics etc logged)
Other issues: shared probes, ownership of tables, concurrent table access ...