Using Cisco Ios Ip Slas To Measure Network Performance - Cisco Catalyst 2960 Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 32 Configuring Cisco IOS IP SLAs Operations

Using Cisco IOS IP SLAs to Measure Network Performance

You can use IP SLAs to monitor the performance between any area in the network—core, distribution,
and edge—without deploying a physical probe. It uses generated traffic to measure network performance
between two networking devices.
a generated packet to the destination device. After the destination device receives the packet, depending
on the type of IP SLAs operation, it responds with time-stamp information for the source to make the
calculation on performance metrics. An IP SLAs operation performs a network measurement from the
source device to a destination in the network using a specific protocol such as UDP.
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To implement IP SLAs network performance measurement, you need to perform these tasks:
For more information about IP SLAs operations, see the operation-specific chapters in the Cisco IOS IP
SLAs Configuration Guide:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipsla/configuration/guide/12_4t/sla_12_4t_book.html
The switch does not support Voice over IP (VoIP) service levels using the gatekeeper registration delay
Note
operations measurements. Before configuring any IP SLAs application, you can use the show ip sla
application privileged EXEC command to verify that the operation type is supported on your software
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Enable the IP SLAs responder, if required.
1.
Configure the required IP SLAs operation type.
2.
Configure any options available for the specified operation type.
3.
Configure threshold conditions, if required.
4.
Schedule the operation to run, then let the operation run for a period of time to gather statistics.
5.
6. Display and interpret the results of the operation using the Cisco IOS CLI or a network
management system (NMS) system with SNMP.
Catalyst 2960 and 2960-S Switches Software Configuration Guide, Release 15.0(1)SE
Figure 32-1 shows how IP SLAs begins when the source device sends
Understanding Cisco IOS IP SLAs
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