Analyzing Ip Service Levels By Using The Icmp Echo Operation - Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 1 Configuring Cisco IOS IP SLAs Operations
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Analyzing IP Service Levels by Using the ICMP Echo Operation

The ICMP echo operation measures end-to-end response time between a Cisco device and any devices
using IP. Response time is computed by measuring the time taken between sending an ICMP echo
request message to the destination and receiving an ICMP echo reply. Many customers use IP SLAs
ICMP-based operations, in-house ping testing, or ping-based dedicated probes for response time
measurements between the source IP SLAs device and the destination IP device. The IP SLAs ICMP
echo operation conforms to the same specifications as ICMP ping testing, and the two methods result in
the same response times.
This operation does not require the IP SLAs responder to be enabled.
Note
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure an ICMP echo operation on the
source device:
Command
Step 1 configure terminal
Step 2
ip sla operation-number
Step 3
icmp-echo {destination-ip-address
| destination-hostname} [source-ip
{ip-address | hostname} |
source-interface interface-id]
Step 4 frequency seconds
Step 5 exit
OL-25303-03
Operation frequency (seconds): 30
Next Scheduled Start Time: Pending trigger
Group Scheduled : FALSE
Randomly Scheduled : FALSE
Life (seconds): 3600
Entry Ageout (seconds): never
Recurring (Starting Everyday): FALSE
Status of entry (SNMP RowStatus): notInService
Number of statistic hours kept: 2
Number of statistic distribution buckets kept: 1
Statistic distribution interval (milliseconds): 20
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Create an IP SLAs operation and enter IP SLAs configuration mode.
Configure the IP SLAs operation as an ICMP Echo operation and enter ICMP
echo configuration mode.
• destination-ip-address | destination-hostname—Specify the destination IP
address or hostname.
• (Optional) source-ip {ip-address | hostname}—Specify the source IP
address or hostname. When a source IP address or hostname is not
specified, IP SLAs chooses the IP address nearest to the destination
(Optional) source-interface interface-id—Specify the source interface for
•
the operation.
(Optional) Set the rate at which a specified IP SLAs operation repeats. The
range is from 1 to 604800 seconds; the default is 60 seconds.
Exit UDP jitter configuration mode, and return to global configuration mode.
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