This document describes the features and functionalities of Cisco Systems' IP Service Level Agreement (IP SLA), as well as its applications in network monitoring and application monitoring. IP SLA is an embedded agent software designed to measure and monitor network performance.
The document introduces IP Service Level Agreement (IP SLA) as an embedded agent in Cisco IOS software that measures network performance metrics such as jitter, latency, and packet loss. It describes the evolution of IP SLA, its components (source and target), and the range of operations supported across different IOS releases.
The paper details functional areas (availability, network, application, voice, and video monitoring), deployment designs (full mesh, partial mesh, composite SLAs), and provides sample configurations for UDP jitter, TCP, HTTP, voice, and video monitoring. It also lists recommended performance thresholds for various traffic types.
IP SLA is an embedded agent in Cisco IOS Software designed to measure and monitor common network performance metrics like jitter, latency, and packet loss.
IP SLA operations are grouped into availability monitoring, network monitoring, application monitoring, voice monitoring, and video monitoring.