Cisco Systems OL-11291-01 manual IPM FAQs and Troubleshooting Tips

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IPM FAQs and Troubleshooting Tips

This appendix provides answers to the commonly asked IPM questions and also gives tips on troubleshooting specific IPM issues.

The appendix contains the following:

•IPM FAQs

•Troubleshooting IPM

IPM FAQs

•What is IPM?

•Does IPM require a dedicated hardware probe to measure and monitor network performance statistics?

•Does the IPM application take measurements from the point of view of the management workstation?

•What workstation and network devices do I need to run IPM?

•I want to run the IPM client as an applet from a Web browser. How can I find out if I already have the Java plug-in?

•Why does my IPM client hang when I’m trying to run it as an applet on Solaris?

•How do I install the IPM client?

•Do I have to install any software on the router to use SA Agent and IPM?

•Can I configure collectors that use SA Agent targets and NNTP, POP3, or SMTP operations?

•Which Cisco hardware platforms support the SA Agent feature of the Cisco IOS software?

•How does IPM interact with the SA Agent feature of the Cisco IOS software?

•What are the names of the MIBs used by IPM?

•Does a target device need to be a router that supports SA Agent?

•What network protocols does IPM support?

•Should I install the router component of IPM on a backbone router so that it intercepts all paths?

•Do I have to run a Cisco IOS software release with the SA Agent feature on all my routers to get hop-by-hop performance statistics?

•How does IPM measure latency between routers in the SNA environment?

User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor

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