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User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor
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Chapter 3 Using IPM to Measure Network Performance
Measuring Network Performance for FTP
• The server name contains only alphanumerical characters, '.' and '-'.
• The username contains only alphanumerical characters, safe characters ('$','-','_','.','+'), and extra
characters ('!','*',',',0x27,0x28,0x29).
• The password contains only alphanumerical characters, safe characters, extra characters, and ‘%’.
• The path, dir/file, contains only alphanumerical characters, safe characters, extra characters,
reserved characters ('?','@','&','='.'/'), ‘ ’, and ‘%’.
Step 7 Select the mode of FTP session.
• In Active FTP, the client opens a control connection on port 21 to the server, and whenever the client
requests data from the server, the server opens a TCP session on port 20.
• In Passive FTP, the client opens the data sessions, using a port number supplied by the server.
For detailed information on active and passive FTP transfer modes, see Appendix A, IPM FAQs.
Step 8 Click Add.
IPM adds the newly defined operation to the IPM database.
Step 9 Click Close to close the Configuration window.
For more detailed information about the options available from the FTP Operation Configuration
window, see the “FTP Operation Configuration Window” topic in the online help.
Viewing Statistics for FTP
The FTP Historical Statistics window displays statistical and graphical information gathered over the
monitoring period for the selected FTP collector.
To view end-to-end statistics for FTP:
Step 1 From the IPM Main Window, select one or more FTP collectors.
Step 2 Select View > Statistics.
The FTP Historical Statistics window (Figure 3-10) appears.