Analyze Performance Between Remote Devices with IP SLA

Cisco developed IP SLA technology as part of their IOS software, enabling you to analyze IP service levels for network-based applications and services. IP SLA technology measures the round trip time (RTT) of network services and communications between devices to give you a better measurement of your network’s true performance. Implementing IP SLA commands manually can be challenging, but SolarWinds products can do the heavy lifting for you.

Presenting Panoramic WAN Performance Monitoring with Orion IP SLA

Orion IP SLA Manager, the newest Orion Network Performance Monitor module, allows you to monitor WAN performance by tracking key edge-to-edge router performance statistics using Cisco® IP SLA technology. Like NetFlow, IP SLA technology is included free in the IOSs of most Cisco WAN routers.

Orion IP SLA Manager evolved from our previous Orion VoIP Monitor to deliver a powerful solution for identifying site-specific and WAN-related network performance issues. This module identifies which devices on your network support IP SLA operations and automatically sets up operations, eliminating any guesswork.

Finally, you can monitor key WAN applications by analyzing the performance of the underlying network protocols, including DNS lookups, FTP, HTTP, TCP connect, and UDP jitter. Of course, you can also continue to monitor VoIP call paths to ensure quality of service for your voice traffic. Go ahead and get a new perspective on your network with Orion IP SLA Manager!

Orion IP SLA Manager Highlights

• Monitor WAN network performance using IP SLA technology that’s already built into your existing Cisco routers
• Visualize site-to-site network performance on a clickable, drill-down map
• Discover and automatically setup Cisco IP SLA-capable network devices with specific IP SLA operations
• Quickly review WAN performance to determine the impact on key applications
• View at-a-glance WAN performance with the Top 10 IP SLA dashboard
• Monitor VoIP performance statistics, including MOS, jitter, network latency, and packet loss

Monitoring VoIP Infrastructure With Orion IP SLA Manager

Monitoring VoIP infrastructure accurately requires leveraging IP SLA technology to collect network performance statistics, without intruding on voice calls. These statistics include MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important QoS metrics that provide detailed visibility into VoIP performance.

Orion IP SLA Manager (formerly VoIP Monitor) allows you to proactively analyze VoIP-specific IP SLA metrics along with infrastructure such as Cisco CallManager®. With Orion IP SLA Manager, you can monitor VoIP quality across WAN links, as well as monitor the underlying systems and protocols that the VoIP environment relies upon. Orion IP SLA Manager’s simulation-based approach with IP SLA alerts you to problems and enables you to fix them quickly.

Monitoring IP SLA with Free Tools from SolarWinds

IP SLA Monitor enables IP SLA on Cisco routers and switches, configures the path-specific operation details, and displays the resulting real-time performance information in an easy-to-read dashboard. IP SLA Monitor’s intuitive interface allows you to easily monitor common IP SLA operations, including UDP echo, ICMP path echo (ping), TCP connect, DNS resolution, and HTTP.

SolarWinds free IP SLA Monitor makes it easy to:

• Analyze performance between a Cisco IP SLA-enabled device and other remote devices
• Monitor common IP SLA operations, including UDP echo, ICMP path echo (ping), TCP connect time, DNS resolution, and HTTP response
• Create and export a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) to monitor path-specific IP SLA performance in Orion Network Performance Monitor