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IP SLA Monitor?

Hello,

Any reason behind calling it VOIP monitor vs QOS/IP SLA Monitor ? I think it vague if we can use this product for monitoring the IP SLA values without having a VOIP solution. We monitoring networks for ISP's and more customers are starting to use IP Telephony from independent VOIP Providers, would be very nice to be able to monitor SLA levels, but we have absolutly no access to the VOIP parts..

My feeling is that this would work, but I'm not totally convinced.. Would like SolarWinds to create some whitepapers or something on this, I think it would sell their products more..

heZ

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Haley

Thanks for the feedback. Orion VoIP Monitor is primarily targeted at companies that want to monitor their voice network or test whether their network is ready for a voice deployment. Over the next several releases, we will be expanding the functionality to not only include IP SLA monitoring but also Call Data Records gathering from various PBX vendors, Call Volume monitoring, and other customer requested features.

Customers can deploy Orion VoIP Monitor without having a voice network deployed to test response times, latency, and jitter over their WAN links. Users can specify the packet precedence in order to simulate different types of traffic. You can download the free 30 day VoIP Monitor evaluation from our website in order to test how it works on your network.

Are there additional IP SLA metrics you would like to monitor in addition to response times, latency, and jitter?

hez

Will definitly be testing this, also doing som consulting on another company where there is an Cisco Callmgr solution.

But i guess my next question the will be, will there be an scaled down SLA monitor ? would think that would be a market for that also, I would think that you have a good market base also in the ISP market ? Or should we pay for the extra features of the VOIP monitor ? Guess that would be the preferred soultion;)

Havn't been drilling down on the IP SLA metric's yet, but Packet loss is of course a necessity. Might get back to this when looked more into the IP SLA functionality.

FormerMember

That's an interesting suggestion we've heard from time to time. A more generic solution is something we're thinking about, but we can't say definitively whether we're going to do something or not.

Of course, the more people express interest, the more likely it becomes.

BryanBecker

I think VoIP is a good start but I too would like to see this become IP SLA Monitor. The VoIP stuff is great and we use it but it would also be nice to configure this to other things besides voice stuff. For one I'd like to use IP SLA to issue pings between routers. Right now all we have is response time from the Orion server to the device its monitoring. I would like to set up pings between my WAN sites to measure latency, drops, etc. Basically I want this to be a better CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM).

BB

SamuelB

I work in an environment where I do not have any access to the VoIP equipment as well. Because of this, I would also like to see a more generic solution centered around both IP SLA and QoS. This added information would help me more efficiently troubleshoot problems that arise and the statements I get stating "the network is slow".