Performance Monitoring Overview
  • 30 May 2024
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Performance Monitoring Overview

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Article summary

The PMON (Performance Monitoring) feature collects the statistics from each standard monitoring entity like physical interfaces and Ethernet Maintenance End Point.

This article describes the purpose and scope of PMON, lists the definitions /acronyms and conventions used, and the general CLI and SNMP configurations.

It also describes the configuration details through CLI (Command Line Interface) and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

The reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of the Performance Monitoring functionality used in the network as a prerequisite.

Acronyms

The following table lists the acronyms used in these following articles and their expansion.

AcronymExplanation
CLICommand Line Interface
DMDelay Measurement
PMONPerformance Monitoring
SLMSynthetic Loss Measurement
TCAThreshold Crossing Alert

General Configurations

The PMON is configurable and managed by CLI and SNMP interfaces. This article provides the various modes for the CLI configuration and the various operations for the SNMP configuration.

CLI Command Modes

This section describes the numerous command modes available in the CLI configuration for PMON. The following table lists the command modes, access and exit methods of the modes, and the prompt displayed in the modes.

This table lists the access and exit methods for various general configuration modes.

CLI Command Modes

Command ModeAccess MethodPromptExit Method
User EXECThis is the initial mode to start a session.your product >The logout method is used.
Privileged EXECThe User EXEC mode command enable is used to enter the Privileged EXEC mode.your product#The command disable is used to return to the User EXEC mode.
Global ConfigurationThe Privileged EXEC mode command configures the terminal, is used to enter the Global Configuration Mode.your product(config)#The command exit/end is used to exit to the Privileged EXEC mode.
PMON Policy ConfigurationThe Global Configuration Mode command PMON Policy Configuration (config-pmon-policy)#, is used to enter the PMON Policy Configurationyour product(config-pmon-policy)#The command exit is used to exit to the Global Configuration mode. The command end is used to exit to the Privileged EXEC mode.
Telemetry ConfigurationThe Global Configuration mode command Telemetry is used to enter in the Telemetry Configuration mode.your product(config-telemetry)#The command exit is used to exit to the Global Configuration mode. The command end is used to exit to the Privileged EXEC mode.

Default Configurations

The following table lists the default values assigned to several PMON parameters, during the start-up.

Default Configurations

headerDefault Setting
Policy Profile Configurationcell
Pmon Policy Descriptioncell
Number of 15 Mins33
Number of 1 Day8
Threshold Crossing Alert (TCA)0

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