
August 2008
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RMON
Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) is an SNMP protocol used to manage networks remotely. RMON
probes can be used to collect, interpret, and forward statistical data about network traffic from designated
active ports in a LAN segment to an NMS (Network Management System) application for monitoring and
analyzing without negatively impacting network performance. RMON software is fully integrated in the
software to acquire statistical information.
This feature supports basic RMON 4 group implementation in compliance with RFC 2819, including the
Ethernet Statistics, History (Control & Statistics), Alarms, and Events groups.
Router Discovery Protocol (RDP)
The Router Discovery Protocol (RDP) is an extension of ICMP that allows end hosts to discover routers on
their networks. The implementation of RDP supports the router requirements as defined in RFC 1256.
Using RDP, hosts attached to multicast or broadcast networks send solicitation messages when they start
up. Routers respond to solicitation messages with an advertisement message that contains the router IP
addresses. In addition, routers send advertisement messages when their RDP interface becomes active and
then subsequently at random intervals.
Routing Protocol Preference
Specifying a routing protocol preference is supported. This is done by configuring a weight for each rout-
ing protocol (including static routes) to control which entry to prefer when two entries exist from different
sources. By default, local routes always have precedence.
Secure Copy (SCP)
The scp CLI command is available for copying files in a secure manner between hosts on the network. The
scp utility performs encrypted data transfers using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. In addition, scp uses
available SSH authentication and security features, such as prompting for a password if one is required.
Secure Shell (SSH)
The Secure Shell feature provides a secure mechanism that allows you to log in to a remote switch, to
execute commands on a remote device, and to move files from one device to another. Secure Shell
provides secure, encrypted communications even when your transmission is between two untrusted hosts
or over an unsecure network.
The OmniSwitch includes both client and server components of the Secure Shell interface and the Secure
Shell FTP file transfer protocol. SFTP is a subsystem of the Secure Shell protocol. All Secure Shell FTP
data are encrypted through a Secure Shell channel.
When used as an SSH Server, the following SSH Software is supported on the indicated operating systems:
SSH Software Supported Operating Systems
OpenSSH
Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, Linux Red Hat
F-Secure
Sun Solaris, Win 2000, Win XP
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