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IP SLA stands for Internet Protocol
Internet protocol

Internet protocol may refer to:*The Internet Protocol, a specific protocol implementation in the Internet protocol suite*The Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols that are used for the Internet...
 Service Level Agreement
Service Level Agreement

A service level agreement is a part of a service contract where the level of service is formally defined. In practice, the term SLA is sometimes used to refer to the contracted delivery time or performance....
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o IOS IP SLAs is a feature included in the Cisco IOS Software that can allow administrators the ability to Analyze IP Service Levels for IP applications and services. IP SLA's uses active traffic-monitoring technology to monitor continuous traffic on the network. This is a reliable method in measuring over head network performance.






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IP SLA stands for Internet Protocol
Internet protocol

Internet protocol may refer to:*The Internet Protocol, a specific protocol implementation in the Internet protocol suite*The Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols that are used for the Internet...
 Service Level Agreement
Service Level Agreement

A service level agreement is a part of a service contract where the level of service is formally defined. In practice, the term SLA is sometimes used to refer to the contracted delivery time or performance....
.

Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs)

Cisco IOS IP SLAs is a feature included in the Cisco IOS Software that can allow administrators the ability to Analyze IP Service Levels for IP applications and services. IP SLA's uses active traffic-monitoring technology to monitor continuous traffic on the network. This is a reliable method in measuring over head network performance. Cisco Routers provide IP SLA Responders that give accuracy of measured data across a network.

About IP SLAs


With IP SLAs, routers and/or switches perform periodic measurements. The exact number and type of available measurements depends on the IOS version. IP SLAs enable building truly distributed performance collection systems. IP SLAs is very widely used in networks to generate time-based network and services performance data. It is typically used together with SNMP and Netflow
Netflow

NetFlow is a network protocol developed by Cisco Systems to run on Cisco IOS-enabled equipment for collecting Internet Protocol traffic information....
 which generate volume-based data. IP SLAs is often used to generate data which is needed by service level agreement
Service Level Agreement

A service level agreement is a part of a service contract where the level of service is formally defined. In practice, the term SLA is sometimes used to refer to the contracted delivery time or performance....
s.

Types of Automated Operations IP SLAs Supports
  • Carrier Ethernet
    Carrier Ethernet

    Carrier Ethernet: the extensions to Ethernet necessary to enable telecommunications network providers to provide Ethernet services to customers and to utilise Ethernet technology in their networks....
     / Metro Ethernet
    Metro Ethernet

    A Metro Ethernet is a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and businesses to a Wide Area Network, such as the Internet....
     IEEE 802.1ag-Based Jitter Operation
  • Carrier Ethernet
    Carrier Ethernet

    Carrier Ethernet: the extensions to Ethernet necessary to enable telecommunications network providers to provide Ethernet services to customers and to utilise Ethernet technology in their networks....
     / Metro Ethernet
    Metro Ethernet

    A Metro Ethernet is a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and businesses to a Wide Area Network, such as the Internet....
     IEEE 802.1ag-Based Echo Operation
  • MPLS
    Mpls

    MPLS or Mpls can refer to:* Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States* Multiprotocol Label Switching, a data-carrying mechanism in computer networking...
     Label Switched Path
    Label Switched Path

    In Multi-Protocol Label Switching networking, a Label Switched Path is a path through an MPLS network, set up by a signaling protocol such as Label Distribution Protocol, RSVP-TE, BGP or CR-LDP....
     (LSP) VCCV for Pseudo-wire
    Pseudo-wire

    In computer networking and telecommunications, a pseudowire is an emulation of a native service over a packet-switching . The native service may be Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Frame Relay, Ethernet, low-rate Time-division multiplexing, or Synchronous optical networking, while the PSN may be Multi-protocol label switching, Internet Protocol ,...
    3 Echo Operation
  • Multiprotocol Label Switching
    Multiprotocol Label Switching

    In computer networking and telecommunications, Multi Protocol Label Switching refers to a highly scalable, protocol agnostic, data-carrying mechanism....
     (MPLS) Label Switched Path
    Label Switched Path

    In Multi-Protocol Label Switching networking, a Label Switched Path is a path through an MPLS network, set up by a signaling protocol such as Label Distribution Protocol, RSVP-TE, BGP or CR-LDP....
     (LSP) Ping
  • H.323 Gatekeeper
    H.323 Gatekeeper

    An H.323 Gatekeeper serves the purpose of Call Admission Control and translation services from E.164 IDs to IP addresses in an H.323 telephony network....
     Registration Delay Operation
  • Session Initiation Protocol
    Session Initiation Protocol

    The Session Initiation Protocol is a Signalling protocol, widely used for setting up and tearing down multimedia communication sessions such as Internet telephony and video calls over the Internet....
     or H.323
    H.323

    H.323 is an umbrella Recommendation from the ITU-T that defines the protocols to provide audio-visual communication sessions on any packet network....
     Call Setup Delay Operation
  • Real-time Transport Protocol
    Real-time Transport Protocol

    The Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over the Internet. It was developed by the Audio-Video Transport Working Group of the IETF and first published in 1996 as RFC 1889, and superseded by RFC 3550 in 2003....
     (RTP) DSP-Based Operation
  • Transmission Control Protocol
    Transmission Control Protocol

    The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is so central that the entire suite is often referred to as "TCP/IP"....
     (TCP) Connect
  • User Datagram Protocol
    User Datagram Protocol

    The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, sometimes known as datagram, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring prior communications to set up special transmission cha...
     (UDP) Echo (for VoIP Jitter & MOS
    Mean Opinion Score

    In multimedia especially when codecs are used to compress the Bandwidth requirement , the mean opinion score provides a numerical indication of the perceived quality of received media after compression and/or transmission....
    )
  • User Datagram Protocol
    User Datagram Protocol

    The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, sometimes known as datagram, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring prior communications to set up special transmission cha...
     (UDP) Jitter for VoIP
  • User Datagram Protocol
    User Datagram Protocol

    The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, sometimes known as datagram, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring prior communications to set up special transmission cha...
     (UDP) Jitter
  • User Datagram Protocol
    User Datagram Protocol

    The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, sometimes known as datagram, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring prior communications to set up special transmission cha...
     (UDP) Echo
  • User Datagram Protocol
    User Datagram Protocol

    The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, sometimes known as datagram, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring prior communications to set up special transmission cha...
     (UDP) Path Echo
  • DNS
    Domain name system

    The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants....
     Lookups
  • DHCP
    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a network application protocol used by devices to obtain configuration information for operation in an Internet Protocol network....
     Lease Requests
  • FTP
    File Transfer Protocol

    File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network such as the Internet.FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging and manipulating files over a Transmission Control Protocol computer network....
     Downloads
  • HTTP Get
  • ICMP
    Internet Control Message Protocol

    The Internet Control Message Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. It is chiefly used by networked computers' operating systems to send error messages—indicating, for instance, that a requested service is not available or that a host or router could not be reached....
     Echo (remote ping)
  • ICMP Path Echo
  • ICMP Path Jitter
  • IPv6
    IPv6

    Internet Protocol version 6 is the next-generation Internet layer protocol for packet -switched internetworking and the Internet. IPv4 is the dominant Internet Protocol version, and was the first to receive widespread use....
     Support
  • VRF
    VRF

    VPN Routing and Forwarding is a technology used in computer networks that allows multiple instances of a routing table to co-exist within the same router at the same time....
     Support
  • Application Performance Monitor (APM)
  • Data-Link Switching
    Data-Link Switching

    Data-link switching is a tunneling protocol designed to tunnel unroutable, non-IP based protocols such as IBM Systems Network Architecture and NetBIOS Frames protocol over an IP network....
     (DLSw+) (SNA Tunneling protocol
    Tunneling protocol

    The term tunneling protocol is used to describe when one network protocol called the payload protocol is encapsulation within a different delivery protocol....
    )


Related Links

  • Cisco
    Cisco

    Cisco may refer to:Companies:* Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore....
     
    • Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements Configuration Guide, Release 12.4 (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_4/ip_sla/configuration/guide/hsla_c.html)
    • Cisco IOS IP SLAs Commands Reference (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipsla/command/reference/sla_book.html)
    • Cisco IP Service Level Agreements
    • Service Assurance Agent
      Service Assurance Agent

      Service Assurance Agent is an active measurement technology initially developed by Cisco Systems. SAA is sometimes also referred to in conversation as Application Performance Monitor or Response Time Responder ....
       (older version and name of same feature)
  • Service level agreement
    Service Level Agreement

    A service level agreement is a part of a service contract where the level of service is formally defined. In practice, the term SLA is sometimes used to refer to the contracted delivery time or performance....


Network Management Solutions and Tools Support

Software solutions and tools to configure, collect, and plot IP SLAs data. IP SLAs is widely supported by tools from different vendors. These include but not limited to:

  • IBM Tivoli NetView
    IBM Tivoli NetView

    IBM Tivoli NetView is a Monitor Program based on the Simple Network Management Protocol , and a part of IBM Tivoli Framework.The program provides real time monitoring and active testing on servers supported by SNMP....
     - Netcool Proviso
  • Zenoss Enterprise
    Zenoss

    Zenoss is an open source Application software, server and network management platform based on the Zope application server. It's released under the GNU General Public License version 2....