Re: Measure overall network availability

[Gordon <Gordon () Gordonian com>]

Joe Shen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there any recommended method to measure overall
> network availability? 
>
> Currently we use packet loss rate as indication of
> network availability, but to my understanding this
> just means the possiblity of e2e communication degrade
> but not the network availability.
>  

Cisco's SAA and RTTMON mibs could provide you with some details
pertaining to Delay, Jitter, and Packet Loss on Cisco devices.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk869/tk769/technologies_white_paper09186a00801b1a1e.shtml

-Gordon

> regards
>
> Joe
>