You will need a NM package that will trend using RMON stats.

I just performed this upgrade. Upgrade Common Services First. Note that it will ask you several times for passwords. Leave them blank if you wish to keep your old ones. Also ensure that you are logged in as Local Machine Admin if you run Windoze. Giv...

Have your switch send an SNMP trap to your NM station for alerting.

Use CiscoView in Device Manager. CLI is better for this though.

I would ensure that I had the latest IDU for RME. Also many of the quirky problems I had in LMS went away with version 2.2. No more Java Virtual Machine to deal with.  If you upgrade you can perform a rediscovery of the devices which should help. If...