IP SLAs

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[edit] Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs)

Cisco IOS IP SLAs is a feature included in the Cisco IOS Software that can allow administrators the ability to to Analyze IP Service Levels for IP applications and services. IP SLA's uses active traffic-monitoring technology to monitor continuous traffic on the network. This is a reliable method in measuring over head network performance. Cisco Routers provide IP SLA Responders that give accuracy of measured data across a network.

[edit] What IP SLAs Does

With IP SLAs, routers and/or switches perform periodic measurements. These include:

The exact number and type of available measurements depends on the IOS version. IP SLAs enables building truly distributed performance collection systems. IP SLAs is very widely used in networks to generate time-based network and services performance data. It is typically used together with SNMP and Netflow which generate volume-based data. IP SLAs is often used to generate data which is need by Service Level Agreements.

Types of Automated Operations IP SLAs Supports