User's Manual

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Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Software Configuration Guide

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Configuring Cisco IOS IP SLAs Operations

This chapter describes how to use Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on the Catalyst

3750-X or 3560-X switch. Cisco IP SLAs is a part of Cisc

o IOS software that allows Cisco customers

to analyze IP service levels for IP applications and services by using active traffic monitoring—the

generation of traffic in a continuous, reliable, and predictable manner—for measuring network

performance. With Cisco IOS IP SLAs, service provider customers can measure and provide service

level agreements, and enterprise customers can verify service levels, verify outsourced service level

agreements, and understand network performance. Cisco IOS IP SLAs can perform network

assessments, verify quality of service (QoS), ease the deployment of new services, and assist with

network troubleshooting.

Note Switches running the LAN base feature set support only IP SLAs responder functionality and must be

configured with another device that supports full IP SLAs functionality.

Unless otherwise noted, the term switch refers to a Catalyst 3750-X or 3560-X standalone switch and to

a Catalyst 3750-X switch stack.

For more information about IP SLAs, see the Cisco IO

S IP SLAs Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T at

this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipsla/configuration/guide/12_4t/sla_12_4t_book.html

For command syntax information, see the c

ommand reference at this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipsla/command/reference/sla_book.html

This chapter consists of these sections:

• Understanding Cisco IOS IP SLAs, page 45-1

• Configuring IP SLAs Operations, page 45-6

• Monitoring IP SLAs Operations, page 45-13

Understanding Cisco IOS IP SLAs

Cisco IOS IP SLAs sends data across the network to measure performance between multiple network

locations or across multiple network paths. It simulates network data and IP services and collects

network performance information in real time. Cisco IOS IP SLAs generates and analyzes traffic either

between Cisco IOS devices or from a Cisco IOS device to a remote IP device such as a network

application server. Measurements provided by the various Cisco IOS IP SLAs operations can be used for

troubleshooting, for problem analysis, and for designing network topologies.