LiveAction IP SLA: Visual IP SLA Monitoring & Configuration for Cisco IOS
IP SLA and Medianet testing simplified
Cisco IOS IP SLA is a capability embedded in most devices that run Cisco IOS software. Its service-level assurance metrics and methodology allow users to increase network reliability by verifying service guarantees with precise service-level assurance measurements. IP SLA can validate network performance, proactively identify network issues, and simplify the deployment of new IP services.
Video: Keith Parsons demonstrates LiveAction IP SLA—7:12
Cisco IOS IP SLAs generate synthetic test traffic in a continuous, reliable, and predictable manner to enable accurate measurement of network performance. This traffic can be sent across the network to measure performance among multiple network locations or across multiple network paths. IP SLA uses timestamp information to facilitate the calculation of performance metrics such as jitter, latency, network and server response times, packet loss, and mean opinion score (MOS).
LiveAction IP SLA makes Cisco IOS IP service level agreement (SLA) operations easily accessible for generating and monitoring synthetic network traffic to baseline network performance, test policy changes, or proactively monitor key network paths. Synthetic traffic types include data (HTTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP) and voice that can be used to measure latency, loss, jitter, and mean opinion core (MOS) for VoIP and IP SLA video operations (IP SLA VO) for Medianet. Its highly interactive graphical interface delivers the functionality and flexibility of IP SLA features without the need to learn and use Cisco device command lines.
Colored arrows show paths under test.
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IP SLA test setup screen.
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LiveAction supports IP SLA VO (video operations) for generating synthetic video traffic and performance testing for Cisco Medianet.
Quality of Service (QoS) view of IP SLA.
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Features
- Latency, loss, jitter, MOS performance measurements
- Test Types: HTTP, Jitter, Echo, UDP Echo, IP SLA VO (for Medianet)
- Traffic type configuration
- Protocol type: over 10 protocol types • DHCP: destination, source, circuit ID, remote ID, subnet mask
- IP SLA topology view (real-time)
- Quick and full test options
- Set up responder at destination
- Edit, save, delete test configurations
- Export to CSV file
- Historical reporting (live update plotted over timeline)
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