Re: [nsp] Measuring latency between two points

From: Siva Valliappan (svalliap@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 21:16:26 EDT


you might be interested in taking a look at a feature called -
SAA - Service Assurance Agent -

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/Tech/nmp/saa/

cheers
.siva

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, C. Jon Larsen wrote:

>
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Phillip Heller wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:38:02PM +0000, Chris Roberts wrote:
> > I need an automated way to measure the latency between two Cisco
> > routers. Currently I'm looking at some kind of scripted ping -
> > has anyone come up with a better way of doing this that's easier
> > to automate?
> >
> >
> > How about NTP?
>
> I have a perl tool that looks at just that - NTP latency between routers
> as tracked by the ntp process in cisco IOS. It uses rsh command to gather
> the output of "sho ntp as" from a router that has various peers and then
> it alarms up with emails when thresholds for configured latency are
> exceeded. You setup a little perl hash that matches up with each router's
> set of peers that you want to track.
>
> It is integrated with some library code that I have so there would be a
> bit of perl hacking involved to make it useful as a stand alone tool.
> Still, I'll send anyone who is interested a copy.
>
> -jon
>
> >
> >
>
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