Cisco IP SLA services

• Use the cisco router as a remote probe to do measurements.

Cacti Monitoring of Cisco IP SLA

• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_4/ip_sla/configuration/guide/hsthresh.html

  •          At times of high
             network activity, an ICMP ping test often shows a long and inaccurate response time, while an Cisco IOS
             IP SLAs test shows an accurate response time due to the time stamping on the responder. 

• Setup from http://forums.cacti.net/about19542.html

  • Files

    • cacti_data_query_cisco_ip_sla_statistics.xml

      • File comment: Import using cacti import/export template interface

    • cisco-sla-mibs.zip

      • Unzip mibs, and  $ sudo cp *.my /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ 

    • cisco_saa.xml

      • File comment: Copy to {cacti_root}/resource/snmp_queries/

  1. Unzip mibs, and  $ sudo cp *.my /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ 

  2.  sudo cp cisco_saa.xml /usr/share/cacti/resource/snmp_queries/ 

  3. Import cacti_data_query_cisco_ip_sla_statistics.xml

  4. Setup IpSla on cisco router.

     • # ip sla monitor reaction-configuration 10 react mos threshold-type immediate threshold-value 490 250 action-type trapOnly
     • ip sla monitor responder or ip sla responder
     • ip sla 27
       • (config-ip-sla)#path-echo 172.27.240.8 (config-ip-sla-pathEcho)# (config)#ip sla schedule 27 life forever start-time now
     • ip sla 27002
       • (config-ip-sla)#udp-jitter 172.27.240.8 16384 codec g729a source-ip 172.17.240.5
         • tag Klerksdorp_7_Harties_Bank{udp-jitter}
         ip sla schedule 27002 life forever start-time now

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