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IP SLA transfer speed monitoring

What 'type' (echo, ftp, etc.) can be used to test the time to transfer 1 MB worth of data? Ideally, this would be configured to occur once per hour.

The more details, the better.

Thanks!

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sirpaw

Hi nchabra,

I believe this should be ftp. If you want to manually configure this, the link below woulld be very helpful:

http://etutorials.org/Networking/network+management/Part+II+Implementations+on+the+Cisco+Devices/Chapter+11.+IP+SLA/IP+SLA+CLI+Operations/

With this knowledge, you can configure this easily via IPSLAM as well. Hope this helps.

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sirpaw

Hi nchabra,

I believe this should be ftp. If you want to manually configure this, the link below woulld be very helpful:

http://etutorials.org/Networking/network+management/Part+II+Implementations+on+the+Cisco+Devices/Chapter+11.+IP+SLA/IP+SLA+CLI+Operations/

With this knowledge, you can configure this easily via IPSLAM as well. Hope this helps.

nchhabra

Let's say we wanted to do some type of ping which equates to 1 MB every hour from source 1.1.1.1 to destination 2.2.2.2?

Here is what I have so far:

ip sla monitor 160
type echo protocol ipIcmpEcho 172.27.254.1
request-data-size 1500
owner vnetdisc:Source-Dest-ping
frequency 3600

ip sla monitor group schedule 2 160-185 schedule-period 300 start-time now life forever

Please let me know what is missing.

Thanks!

mcbridea

Ping is probably not a good choice to show data transfer rates. I would use FTP.

Defining HTTP FTP get operation CLI with absolute path. Get the file /home/user/test.cap

ip sla 1

ftp get user:pwd@drop.cisco.com/test.cap

ip sla schedule 1 start-time now

Defining HTTP FTP get operation CLI with relative path. Get the file /test.cap

ip sla 1

ftp get user:pwd@drop.cisco.com/.../test.cap

ip sla schedule 1 start-time now

nchhabra

The idea is to monitor network speed without actually transferring anything. For example, an extended ping of the appropriate 'Repeat count' and 'Datagram Size' should emulate a 1MB transfer. Is there something close to this with IP SLA?