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User Guide for Cisco Unified Service Monitor
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Using Cisco Unified Service Monitor
The following topics are included:
Getting Started with Service Monitor, page 1-1
Managing Cisco 1040s, page 1-5
Archiving Cisco 1040 Call Metrics, page 1-16
Generating a Cisco 1040 Unreachable Trap, page 1-17

Getting Started with Service Monitor

Cisco Unified Service Monitor (Service Monitor), a member of the Cisco Unified Communications
Management Suite, analyzes data that it receives from Cisco1040 Sensors (Cisco 1040s) installed in
your voice network. Each licensed instance of Service Monitor acts as a primary Service Monitor for
multiple Cisco 1040s. A Service Monitor can also be configured to act as a secondary and tertiary
Service Monitor for Cisco 1040s that are managed by other licensed instances of Service Monitor. When
a Service Monitor becomes unavailable, Cisco1040s fail over to secondary or tertiary Service Monitors
temporarily until the primary Service Monitor becomes available again.
Service Monitor examines the data it receives from Cisco 1040s, comparing Mean Opinion Scores
(MOS)—computed by Cisco 1040s for each RTP stream—against a user-specified threshold value.
When MOS drops below the threshold, Service Monitor generates SNMP traps and sends them to up to
four trap rec eivers. Optionally, Service Monitor stores the call metrics it receives from Cisco 104 0s to disk
files.
To further analyze, display, and act on Service Monitor data, you can use Cisco Unified Operation
Manager (Operations Manager), by configuring it as a trap receiver for Service Monitor. Operations
Manager can generate events for Service Monitor traps, display the events on the Service Quality Alerts
dashboard, and store event history for up to 31 days. For more information, see User Guide for Cisco
Unified Operations Manager.
Figure 1-1 shows Service Monitor and Cisco 1040s installed with Operations Manager.