[nsp] ISP IOS choice / SAA

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> I am needing to get a sense of what version of IOS ISP's who use Cisco
> equipment are running, 12.0 or 12.2.

12.2S and 12.1E on 7200, 12.1E on 6500/7600, 12.0S on GSR, 12.0S and
12.1E on 7500.

> Also, for anyone using Cisco's SAA
> feature (service assurance agent), do you tend to have a separate, small
> router act as an "SAA probe", or run it on your edge routers?

We use separate routers for SAA colocated with our PE routers. If we
need SAA all the way out the customer, we run it directly on the CE
routers.

> If you
> run SAA on your edge, are you running 12.0 or 12.2 on those?  12.0
> supports SAA, but 12.2 has all the latest and greatest SAA options and
> features.  Also, any input on how you visualize your SAA data would be
> helpful also.  IPM or something else for viewing SAA data?

Proviso (http://www.quallaby.com/).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no