Makin g do Vendors promise to make big strides in interoperability this year, but to be safe with different vendors' RMON 2 tools in the meantime, network managers should state their interoperability expectations to the vendor up front and have it written into the contract, warns Wellens. To absolutely ensure probe and application interoperability, management may want to invest in a single RMON 2 provider. However, there is still the potential for trouble in RMON 2's future. The RMON market is becoming competitive, and to make their offerings more attractive, some vendors add proprietary extensions to RMON 2. So far, the most common extensions are application response measurement and WAN monitoring.
Vendors live to varying extents by proprietary capabilities.
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