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What is New in This Release
This chapter provides a brief description of the new features in IPM Release 2.2 and describes IPM's client/server architecture. It includes the following sections:
IPM Release 2.2 implements the following new features:
- Support for running the IPM server on Windows NT version 4.0.
- Support for installing the IPM server by itself on Solaris has been removed. However, you can still install the IPM client by itself, or both the IPM server and client.
- On Windows NT you can install the IPM server by itself, the IPM client by itself, or both the IPM server and client.
- On Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 Professional, you can install only the IPM client.
- Support for running the IPM client as an applet in an Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Web browser in Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 98. You cannot run the IPM client as an applet if you are running Windows 2000 Professional.
- Support for the HTTP SA Agent feature defined in the Round Trip Time Monitoring (RTTMon) MIB, including configuration of HTTP connect operations, graphical and statistical display of HTTP statistics, and support for measuring latency for the HTTP protocol.
- Improved user interface for configuring collectors, operations, source routers, and targets.
- Dynamic editing of operation properties, and optional updating of all configured collectors that use the operation; dynamic editing of collectors; dynamic editing of latency threshold for Running statistical collectors.
- User-defined jitter threshold for Enhanced UDP collectors.
- Automatic determination of SA Agent Responder status for targets.
- Display up to 25 paths or hops on the same graph; display average statistics for up to 10 collectors on the same graph.
- Support for verification of UDP Echo data, useful when monitoring data corruption.
- Support for client security, including the following enhancements:
- Secure and non-secure Web clients. Secure Web client provides full IPM function, including adding, deleting, editing, starting, stopping, and monitoring resources. Non-secure Web client provides only monitoring functions.
- Optional password control for downloading IPM client software or launching the secure Web client from the IPM Server Home Page.
- On Solaris, optional password for starting any IPM client.
- Support for increasing the latency threshold for all Running statistical collectors.
- Support for changing an IP address throughout the IPM database.
- Web access to usage reports for each path in Path Echo path lists, and to HTTP latency reports.
IPM provides central services and database functions on an IPM server, which communicates through a messaging interface to multiple IPM workstation clients (Figure 1-1
). The IPM software consists of server software and client software components that can be installed on the same workstation or on different workstations.
For this release of IPM, the server software runs only on Solaris or Windows NT systems, but the client software runs on Solaris, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 Professional platforms.
The client/server architecture is cross-platform compatible, which allows you to run the client and server software in mixed operating system environments. For example, you can run the IPM server on a Solaris workstation and access it from an IPM client running on a Windows workstation.
Figure 1-1: IPM Client/Server Architecture
The IPM server software consists of a group of functional services that manage the data among the network, client workstations, and the centralized database. The IPM server manages the exchange of data between the IPM database and the network devices, such as the routers. The IPM Process Manager launches and manages all of the IPM servers.
The IPM client software communicates with the IPM server. You can install the IPM client software on the same workstation as the IPM server software, or on a different workstation on the same network as the IPM server. The IPM client integrates with the CiscoWorks2000 desktop.
From a Web browser running on any workstation on the network, you can:
- Access the source, target, operation, and collector definitions
- View Web-based reports of the performance metrics
- Export IPM data
- View seed files
- Access IPM data from the CiscoWorks2000 desktop
Posted: Fri Jul 28 12:13:50 PDT 2000
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