Cisco Systems OL-11291-01 Manual De Usuario

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

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.