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July 2011: EchoVault 5.0 Brings SNMP for Y.1731 Welcome to the July issue of Creanord EchoNEWS.
Creanord EchoNEWS aims to keep you informed of the
latest developments at Creanord and in the fields
of SLA assurance, automated Ethernet service
delivery and OAM (Operations, Administration and
Maintenance). SNMP Collection for Y.1731
and Driver for RAD ETX-204 Managing how well your network operates is the
basis to providing good quality to customers.
Measuring network performance is the means to be
able to manage network quality. Y.1731 is rapidly
becoming the standard of choice for Carrier
Ethernet, as it provides a comprehensive solution
for performance management and a standardized way
to measure network characteristics. In
multi-vendor environments a broad range of
equipment support helps reduce management
complexity and bring the benefits of near
real-time visibility into the service. SNMP
is a widespread protocol for result collection
from network equipment. EchoVault 5.0 brings
a powerful and distributed framework for Ethernet
result collection through SNMP. The framework
provides rapid driver-based integration to various
Y.1731 data sources through SNMP v1, v2c and v3
protocols including SHA and MD5 authentication and
AES and DES privacy. With Y.1731, delay, delay variation and packet
loss data is collected from the nodes. SNMP nodes
can be added to EchoVault by selecting "External
SNMP Agent" in the Add a New EchoAgent page. Then
MEP/MEG and SLA-Meter and Y.1731 configurations
can be added with the same familiar workflow as
for any other EchoVault managed node. End-users
get immediate visibility into their service via
the SLA Portal. Release 5.0 brings driver support for Y.1731 for
RAD ETX-204A Ethernet demarcation device, with
firmware 2.0 or newer. Performance testing with UDP
Echo and
Ping to 1000 target The EchoVault UDP Echo Client tests measure
network performance and availability. These tests
send UDP test packets from the EchoAgent to
specified targets such as Cisco and Juniper
routers and Unix hosts running UDP Echo service or
loopback devices assigned for this purpose. The
tests comply with RFC 862 and now utilize hardware
time-stamping engine in the NID/NODEs for 1
microsecond accurate results when supported by the
NID firmware. This test policy also provides an
option to configure Differentiated Services Code
Point (DSCP) to the test packets in order to test
Quality of Service (QoS) conformance. Further, EchoVault 5.0 extends the capacity to allow UDP Echo Client tests to up to 1000 targets for MetroNODE and 250 targets for
MetroNID. EchoVault also allows bulk uploading targets from a file to ease adding targets. ICMP Echo Client test, commonly known as Ping,
for NID and MetroNODE is for testing network
availability and packet loss using ICMP Echo
request messages (as defined in RFC 792). In
addition to packet loss the test reports
round-trip delay and delay variation. Ping test is
useful where UDP Echo Client or SLA-Meter testing
is not feasible, such as in cases where testing is
required against targets such DSL modems, Network
Printers or other network resources with limited
functionality. EchoVault Release 5.0 In addition to the above mentioned functionality Creanord EchoVault release 5.0 brings numerous important enhancements such as interactive day-by-day charts for Analytics and 3S Dashboard Metric and Period web-reports, interactive Event Hotlinks from threshold crossing events, instant Portal Links, templates and wizards to improve workflow and improved user management. The release is now available and our team is standing by to give you a demo! Previous issues of Creanord
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