How to monitor network health?
Hey guys,
We have the need to measure network health from our clients' LAN to our datacenter and vice-versa. We'd like to gather QoS, UDP, and TCP stats (jitter, RTT, loss, etc). The network ...
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I agree that configuring Cisco SLAs are the best way of monitoring network health. For example I have wan links that I monitor. If I set up a couple of SLAs from one site to another (say between a switch at each end), and I configure one to mimic TCP citrix traffic, and another for Voip, I can get a very accurate indication of performance that takes into account the QoS etc.
If I just ping from the LM collector to something at the other end, Ill probably only get an indication of performance for the best efforts QoS class, and general server performance issues will also impact the measurements. Sometimes I don't have the luxury of Cisco kit, so I have often searched around to see if someone has ever implemented a Linux (or windows) app that can do SLAs. Then I could setup a couple of NUCs at each end running the SLAs and have them monitored by LM. I Haven't found anything yet, but if someone does, it would be great to know.
Simon
