RE: Tools: Network Performance/Optimization/Service Monitoring

Also worth considering, is something that used to be called NetQoS SuperAgent, but was purchased by CA and is now called CA Application Delivery Analysis. We had used this product to troubleshoot LDAP issues, in the past. This is an advanced, elegant tool, but is priced accordingly.

I'd also like to second the recommendation for IP SLA, but recommend not configuring either the poller or responder on anything running BGP. The BGP scanner process can briefly peg a CPU, which radically skews your results. Some of the newer hardware requires more advanced licensing for IP SLA, but most of the older stuff has it included.

iPerf is also helpful and free.

Regards,

-Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Karl Young
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:58 PM
To: marc abel
Cc: Cisco Fanatic; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Tools: Network Performance/Optimization/Service Monitoring

Marc,
           Take a look at the Cisco NAM. Network Access Module.
                      Karl .

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 17:50, marc abel <marcabel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It depends on how deep you want to go with it.
>
> You can setup IP SLAs on your routers and gather the information you
> are looking for. This will be command line only however so next you
> might look at the free Solar Winds IP SLA Monitor utility. Then if you
> are looking for something even more robust you could look at their
> paid "Voip and Quality Manager" product.
>
> http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/ip_sla_monitor/
>
> -Marc
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Cisco Fanatic
> <ebay_products_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ALL,
>> You all must have encountered lot of network performance,
>> optimization and monitoring tools in your job. The frustration is
>> that there is no one tool in the market which can do all what a
>> Network Engineer or a company needs.
>> I am trying to do a mini-project to analyze for myself and determine
>> how I can measure network Layer 3 performance and can look at the
>> metrics for jitter, packet loss, latency etc. If everything can be be
>> viewed as a dashboard.
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for me to start with?
>> Yuri
>>
>>
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