[c-nsp] RTR/SAA on smaller platforms

[jamie baddeley]

we've been thinking about setting up some dedicated SAA probes on the
c1700 platform.

bad idea?

jamie

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:41 +0200, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:
> Jee Kay <> wrote on Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:35 PM:
> 
> > On 10/08/06, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
> >> pls try the old "rtr" command syntax, old/new syntax is compared at
> >>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5207/products_feature_
> >> guide09186a008044d161.html
> > 
> > .. and suddenly it all makes sense :)
> > 
> > I'm having a bit of trouble getting through the documentation though.
> > Basically what I want to do is ping an IP address every second
> > (actually 5 times a sec if possible), timeout around 100ms, and if the
> > packet doesn't come back in a timely manner then log or bleet or do
> > something interesting that I can somehow detect.
> > 
> > I'd rather not have to SNMP query every second to see if the last
> > packet came back OK if at all possible.... is there any way to store
> > say the last minute of traffic and poll that once a minute for dropped
> > packets? Or to get it to syslog if such an event occurs? Is 'show rtr
> > history' useful at this point?
> 
> I don't think you can send that many packets using the echo/ipIcmp
> probe. Do you happen to ping to another IOS device which could run the
> responder? Then you can take a look at the Jitter probe which has a
> configurable interval/num-packets. This probe doesn't support the
> history, but you can keep up to 2 hours of stats in the MIB and poll it.
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/products_configuration_guide_
> chapter09186a008044180b.html explains this probe..
> 
> 	oli
> 
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jamie baddeley <jamie.baddeley at fx.net.nz>
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