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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:	DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:	Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:	NETCAD::COLELLADT

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4455
Total number of notes:	16761

3531.0. "Probewatch and Catalyst 5000 switches" by MEO78A::BARNHOORN (Barney to his friends) Tue May 14 1996 02:04

     In the Cisco Product announcements Web Page,  I found the following 
    information on the Catalyst 500.
    
    
    
     "Catalyst 3.0 EMS also provides an RMON agent running on the switch. 
      This agent provides the network manager with all the standard RMON 
      elements needed to perform detailed analysis of data-link statistics,
      multi-level protocol decode of network packets and analysis of 
      switched network traffic flow. Cisco also offers Frontier Software's 
      NETscout RMON console monitor to collect and archive network 
      traffic data. "

    
    As Probewatch is "very" close to Frontier's NETscout, does this mean
    that we can use probewatch to monitor Catalyst 5000 Switches?
    
    Has anyone tried this?
    
    Also within the Cisco Catalyst announcement it made reference to
    supplying NetScout for HP/OV, IBM NV/6000, SunNet Mgr and MS Windows
    3.1
    
    
    
    Thanks Mark

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3531.1	http:/www.cisco/warp/public/417/42.html	MEO78A::BARNHOORN	Barney to his friends	`Tue May 14 1996 02:06`	4
	The web page pointer http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/417/42.html
3531.2	There should be no interoperability problems	NAC::FORREST		`Tue May 14 1996 16:58`	8
	Mark, Frontier says that all of the clients they OEM are the same. So PROBEwatch (or clearVISN RMON Manager) should be able to manage the Catalyst RMON data. We (Digital) can also resell the NETscout software for HP UX, IBM AIX, and Sun. See NAC::NIPG:[HUBWATCH.RMON]RESELL.TXT jack
3531.3	more info	HEN::SCHNEIDER	Rick Schneider (315)461-9938	`Mon May 20 1996 06:36`	19
	I expect to help a customer deploy this solution this week. My understanding is that the catalyst 5000 requires a mimimun firmware version of 1.6 to make use of the span port functionality. This will enable Frontier's 100MB half duplex probe to be placed on the span port and listen in on other port(s) in the switch. For this firmware version, switching the span port to listen on other switch ports is via SNMP sets. Future Cisco firmware releases will have a RMON agent in it written by Frontier that supports " mini-RMON" for all ports on the catalyst switch. Mini-RMON is the first four groups of RMON - so not all 9 groups are supported. To get the full 9 groups you'll need the 100mb probe on the span port. For this type of configuration, Frontier has used a guess of being able to monitor 20 ports via the probe on the span port at the same time. (supposedly Frontier is completed with the agen for this solution, but Cisco has some work to do with its SNMP software to speed it up to work with the NETscout Plus software. rick