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NimBUS for Cisco VoIP Monitoring

NimBUS for Cisco IP SLA Monitoring

Summary:

NimBUS for Cisco IP SLA performs traffic simulations on Cisco devices to proactively detect and preempt excessive jitter, packet loss, and high latency. The NimBUS solution can gather data from a range of protocols, services, and data points to provide a comprehensive, centralized view of IP network performance, and all data can be presented via real-time alarm dashboards, performance trend reports, and SLA compliance reports.

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As voice, video, and data applications continue to converge on IP networks, monitoring these networks—and ensuring quality of service (QoS) and SLA compliance—is becoming more difficult, and more critical. Organizations with Cisco network components need Cisco IP SLA to gather the vital performance statistics that are required to ensure all elements—and the network as a whole—are functioning properly.

Today these networks support a range of mission-critical services, including VoIP, security, virtual private network (VPNs), and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). When it comes to these services, monitoring is particularly vital—even the slightest changes in IP network performance can have a dramatic impact on the quality of services end users experience.

NimBUS for Cisco IP SLA provides an easy to use, scalable, and cost effective solution for configuring IP service level monitoring for Cisco devices. With NimBUS, organizations can effectively understand the traffic characteristics of the network to ensure high quality service levels and SLA compliance.

In addition, NimBUS helps organizations manage the introduction of new applications, and effectively assess performance both before and after applications go online, to make sure any performance impact is immediately identified and addressed.
Features:

  • Measures delay, jitter, and packet loss on the network
  • Extensive traffic coverage (i.e. ICMP, HTTP, FTP, DNS, SNA, DHCP)
  • Drag and drop configuration of IP SLA on Cisco devices

Monitors:

  • RTT (round trip response time)
  • DNS
  • Echo
  • FTP
  • HTTP
  • Jitter
  • TCP Connect
  • UDP Echo
  • Network delay or latency
  • Packet loss
  • Network delay variation (jitter)
  • Availability
  • One-way latency
  • Website download time
  • Network statistics

Cisco IP SLA Made Easy— Embedded within Cisco IOS devices, Cisco IP SLA is software that generates and monitors traffic to measure performance between any combinations of network endpoints. Since the agents reside on Cisco devices, they provide very accurate measurements of all performance characteristics that are vital in VoIP environments, including jitter performance, packet loss, round trip response time, CPU utilization, and more.

IP SLA is supported on almost all Cisco IOS devices, but configuring Cisco IP SLA using native toolsets is an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, which has meant that many organizations have not been able to utilize these powerful monitoring capabilities.

NimBUS for Cisco IP SLA makes monitoring network performance and service levels in Cisco environments easier than ever before, featuring drag and drop configuration and robust data analysis capabilities. With NimBUS solutions, organizations can easily and intuitively configure the monitoring of IP SLA across their infrastructure, and centrally manage and report on all vital performance data from a single console.

Cisco IP SLA Probe

 

Cisco IP SLA Protocols and Services Monitored

  • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Measures the roundtrip time taken to discover a DHCP server and obtain a lease from it. The lease is then released after the operation.
  • DNS (Domain Name System). Measures the time required to send a DNS request and receive a reply. If a hostname is specified, the operation queries for an IP, and vice versa.
  • Echo. Measures the time taken to send an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) message to a destination and receive a reply.
  • FTP (File Transfer Protocol). This probe checks its configuration to determine if a reboot is needed and performs the reboot automatically.
  • HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). Measures the round trip time taken to connect and access data from a HTTP server.
  • Jitter. Measures the delay, delay variance, and packet loss in a network by generating synthetic UDP data. The operation sends a certain number of packets (specified by the "Packets" field), each of a certain size (specified by the "Packet size" field), a certain number of milliseconds apart. Requires a target which supports Cisco IP SLA agents.
  • UDPEcho. Measures the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) response time between the source and target. The target must be a device that supports UDP Echo Service (UDP port 7) or another IP SLA agent.
  • TCPConnect. Measures the time taken by the source to perform a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connect operation to the target device (which can be any IP device and does not necessarily need to support IP SLA). Specify the target port number to test a specific TCP protocol (i.e. 21 (ftp), 22 (ssh), 23 (telnet), 80 (http), etc.).

Measures the delay, delay variance, and packet loss in a network by generating synthetic UDP data

 

Critical Performance Data: When and How it’s Needed—NimBUS compiles, analyzes, and monitors performance data to provide real-time tracking and historical reporting of IP SLA environments. NimBUS delivers this vital information via alarms, operator consoles, business dashboards, long-term trend reports, and SLA compliance reports.

Getting Started with NimBUS is Easy

NimBUS VoIP solutions are easy to implement and maintain, and require minimal administrator training. If you would like to request a free trial of NimBUS, please click here.

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