Cisco Systems OL-11291-01 manual Overview of IPM, What is IPM?

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Overview of IPM

This chapter provides an overview of Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM) application. It contains the following sections:

•What is IPM?

•Key Terms and Concepts

•How Does IPM Work?

•Client/Server Architecture

What is IPM?

IPM is a network management application that allows you to monitor the performance of multi-protocol networks. IPM measures the latency and availability of IP networks on a hop-by-hop (router-to-router) basis. It also measures latency between routers and the mainframe in Systems Network Architecture (SNA) networks, and monitors jitter in networks.

You can use IPM to:

•Troubleshoot problems by checking the network performance between devices.

•Send Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps and SNA alerts when a user-configured threshold is exceeded, a connection is lost and reestablished, or a timeout occurs.

•Analyze potential problems before they occur by accumulating statistics, which then can be used to model and design future network topologies.

•Monitor latency, availability, and errors between two network end points.

•Monitor jitter, packet loss, and errors between two network end points.

•Discover network paths between two network end points, and monitor network performance statistics on a hop-by-hop basis.

•Provide Web-based access to long-term information to help determine statistical trends.

•Monitor the availability of critical network servers.

•Monitor SNA performance in mainframe environments.

•Establish service-level agreements.

User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor

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