HP 9304M - Manual (Page 19)

HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9308M / 9304M Reviewer’s Guide
2.10.1 MIB Support
The HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M/ 9308M supports the following standard MIBs:
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MIB-II (RFC 1213)
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Ether-like MIB (RFC 1398)
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Bridge MIB (RFC 1493)
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Ethernet-like MIB (RFC 1643)
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RMON MIB (RFC 1757)
Groups: (1) Ethernet statistics, (2) Ethernet history, (3) Alarm, (9) Event,
In addition, a number of enterprise-specific MIBs are also supported for such things as VLANs, and
multiple bridge groups.
2.10.2 RMON Support
For those customers that use RMON applications, the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M / 9308M
support RMON groups 1 (Ethernet statistics), 2 (Ethernet history), 3 (Alarm), and 9 (Event). These four
groups are available for all ports.
The Ethernet statistics group provides counters for packet counts, broadcast/multicast packets, packet
length counts, missed packets and erred packets. Event and Alarm groups allow threshold setting and
alarm generation based on the counters in the Ethernet group. History accumulates two records for
each port, one a sampling of Ethernet statistics taken every 30 seconds and the other a sampling of
statistics taken every 30 minutes.
2.10.3 Network Monitoring Port
If more RMON groups (such as packet capture) are desired, a RMON probe can be attached to one of
the HP ProCurve Routing Switch 9304M / 9308M ports and Port Monitoring can be configured into the
routing switch. Port Monitoring allows the end user to copy all traffic (inbound, outbound or both)
from any number of ports (even those on different router ports) to a single destination port. This
allows the probe to see all traffic on the selected ports to provide the probe with the proper global
perspective.
LAN analyzers can also use this feature when doing specific monitoring or troubleshooting of network
segments.
2.10.4 Console Support
Out-of-band management of HP routing switches can be done through the RS-232 console port via a
directly connected terminal emulator. The console interface provides a command line interface to all
configuration parameters.
The console interface is also available in-band through the telnet service.
The RS-232 cable necessary to connect with the 9304M / 9308M is a “straight-through” type and is
supplied with the routing switch. It is a different cable than that used with other HP switches.
The RS-232 port is not speed-sensing. Default configuration is set at 9600 baud.
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