Measure overall network availability

Fri Jan 7 16:23:01 UTC 2005

Joe Shen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>is there any recommended method to measure overall
>network availability? 
>
>Currently we use packet loss rate as indication of
>network availability, but to my understanding this
>just means the possiblity of e2e communication degrade
>but not the network availability.
>  
>

Cisco's SAA and RTTMON mibs could provide you with some details
pertaining to Delay, Jitter, and Packet Loss on Cisco devices.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk869/tk769/technologies_white_paper09186a00801b1a1e.shtml

-Gordon

>regards
>
>Joe
>  
>