Design And Implementation Of A Snmp-Protocol-Based Rmon Agent

As the modern society is making remarkable progress, it is no longer possible toconduct internet monitoring by manpower on account of the explosion of internetapplications and scales. Network administrators are now able to monitor and analyzeinternet operations by means of SNMP. However, SNMP has some shortcomings. Forexample, network congestion arises when a large number of network managementpackets exist as a result of the application of data collection through polling. What’smore, SNMP provides general validation alone without ensuring much reliable safety.And SNMP is supportive of centralized management. As a result, we need to overcomethese shortcomings,All this gives rise to RMON （Remote Network Monitoring）,facilitating network monitoring to a great degree.Above all, an introduction will be given to current application of NMP. Then ageneral analysis will be cast on the pros and cons of SNMP and RMON. At last, thisessay elaborates on the design and implementation of RMON AGENT based on SNMP.Therefore, a detailed description of NMP and its functions and details of implementationcan be better understood; then to achevie the goal of applying the monitoring functionsoffered by the provider more proficiently.Thanks to its safety and convenience, RMON is increasingly widely used in networkequipment, like Router, switchboard, HUB and etc. RMON standard enables SNMP toconduct more effective and active monitoring. As the provider of safer MessageAuthentication, RMON is capable of monitoring and recording data, effectively reducingthe communication burden of Message Authentication. As a result, network administratorsare able to solve problems by rapidly tracking network or equipment breakdown.