In This Chapter - OmniSwitch os6900 Network Configuration Manual

36 Configuring Service
Service Assurance Agent (SAA) enables customers to assure business-critical applications, as well as
services that utilize data, voice, and video. With SAAs, users can verify service guarantees, increase
network reliability by validating network performance and proactively identify network issues. SAA uses
active monitoring to generate traffic in a continuous, reliable, and predictable manner, thus enabling the
measurement of network performance and health.

In This Chapter

This chapter describes the various types of SAAs that can be configured on an OmniSwitch.
Configuration procedures described in this chapter include:
•
"Configuring an SAA ID" on page
•
"Configuring a MAC Address Ping SAA" on page
•
"Configuring an IP Ping SAA" on page
•
"Configuring an Ethernet OAM SAA" on page
•
"Configuring SAA SPB Session Parameters" on page 36-6
•
"Generating an SAA XML History File" on page 36-7
•
"Verifying the SAA Configuration" on page
OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Network Configuration Guide
Assurance Agent
36-5.
36-5.
36-5.
36-5.
36-9.
June 2013 page 36-1