How is Orion IP SLA Manager licensed?
Orion IP SLA Manager is licensed by IP SLA source device. An IP SLA source device is any network device where the IP SLA operation originates from. For example, you could have 20 devices added to Orion IP SLA Manager, but you're only monitoring operations on two of them, this would only count as two IP SLA source devices towards the license count.
- Orion IP SLA 5 (up to 5 IP SLA source devices)
- Orion IP SLA 25 (up to 25 IP SLA source devices)
- Orion IP SLA 50 (up to 50 IP SLA source devices)
- Orion IP SLA X (unlimited IP SLA source devices)
There is no need to match Orion IP SLA Manager tiers and Orion NPM tiers. For example, you can use an Orion IP SLA 50 with an Orion NPM SLX, or an Orion IP SLA 5 with an Orion NPM SL250, depending on your business needs.
What happened to Orion VoIP Monitor?
Orion VoIP Monitor relied heavily on IP SLA technology to measure VoIP quality. The name change of VoIP Monitor to IP SLA Manager is meaningful, as the product has evolved and been enhanced with advanced IP SLA (IP Service Level Agreement) monitoring capabilities. As of Sept 30, 2009, all Orion VoIP Monitor customers under active maintenance were provisioned with Orion IP SLA Manager. All previous VoIP Monitor functionality was maintained in the transition to IP SLA Manager.
Which Cisco IP SLA operations does Orion IP SLA Manager support?
Orion IP SLA Manager supports popular IP SLA operations, including:
- HTTP – Measure the round-trip time to access a Web page
- FTP – Measure the round-trip time to transfer a file
- DNS – Measure the DNS look look-up time (time to request and receive a reply)
- DHCP – Measure the round-trip time to retrieve an IP address
- TCP Connect – Measure connection time, which is useful for application and server monitoring
- UDP Jitter – Measure round-trip delay, one-way delay, one-way jitter, and one-way packet loss
- VoIP UDP Jitter – Measure VoIP call path metrics
- ICMP Echo – Measure round-trip delay
- UDP Echo – Measure response times between IP SLA nodes using IP
- ICMP Path Echo – Discover a network path using traceroute and
measure the response time between a Cisco router and devices using IP
- ICMP Path Jitter – Measure the inter-packet delay variance
along a tracerouted network path