Response Timer Reporter

IOS Feature

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RTR Agent
RTR via RTTMon MIB or CLI
Monitor SLAs

Management
Station

Response Time
Availability

Proactive notification of SLA

violation
Isolate cause of SLA violation
to specific IP hop
IOS System Service
(Or)
RTR Responder

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Configure,
Collect &
Present

IP Host

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How it Works
SNMP

Mgmt Station

RTR Agent

1. User configures Collectors

using SNMP

3. Source router measures &

2. Management Application
provisions Source routers with
Collectors

stores performance data

6. Application retrieves data

from Source routers

4. Source router evaluates SLAs,

sends SNMP Traps

7. Data is written to a database

5. Source router stores 2 hours

of data points

8. User generates reports

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RTR Proactive Notification

SNMP Trap

NMVT

NMS

NetView

Rising and falling thresholds

Robust threshold definition for SLAs
SNMP Traps generated when SLA violated
NMVTs generated when SLA violated
Thresholds can trigger Probe activation for hop
analysis

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RTR ICMP Support

11.2 IOS release and up
Echo Probe - end-to-end response time
Specify source and destination IP address

Path Echo Probe - hop-by-hop response time

Typical Usage:
Echo Probe identifies a SLA violation
SLA violation activates a Path Echo Probe to isolate the slow hop

Path Echo Probe for a specific path

Uses IP Loose Source Routing

Use of IP Type of Service (ToS) field

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RTR

Hop-By-Hop Response Time

ping
ping

ping

RTR
Agent

IP Host

TRACEROUTE determines IP path

Over time, discovers all active paths

PING determines response time for each hop

Isolates hop that causes SLA violation
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RTR SNA Support

11.2 IOS release and up
LU0 Probe
Measures response time using a 3270 ping

SSCP Probe
Measures SSCP-LU response time

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RTR UDP/TCP Support

12.0T(3) available 12/14
Secure RTR Control Message Protocol
RTR Responder
UDP Echo Probe
UDP response time
Specify src/dest IP and port, ToS, packet size
Ex: Simulate Voice traffic

TCP Connection Setup Time

Specify src/dest IP and port, ToS
Virtual circuit availability
Ex: Simulate Telnet or HTTP connection

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RTR Current Development

IOS Release 12.0T(5)

Target availability 6/99
Beta 3/99

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RTR Current Dev (contd)

Voice Over IP Probes
UDP Path Echo
Inter Packet Delay (Jitter)
Packet Train Analysis

Path Jitter
Packet Loss
Voice call Setup

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RTR Current Dev (contd)

TCP Data Transfer Based Probes
Generic TCP transfer (any dest port)
HTTP with connect time and Get/Put
FTP

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RTR Current Dev (contd)

Network Services
DLSw Peer Tunnel
DNS
DHCP

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RTR Future
Investigating to move RTR to VIP port adapter to eliminate CPU and
memory usage on route processor
a stand-alone low end platform for
network management, along with
other applications

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