Setting Up Round-Trip Delay on Resources

The Round Trip Delay application enables you to display, for a selected agent or Frame Relay agent, round-trip delay (IP ping) information. In order to use this feature, you must enable Resource Monitor in the agent. Detailed information about enabling the Resource Monitor option is provided in the SwitchProbe Installation and Configuration Guide. Use the information displayed to determine the response time of established nodes and evaluate network performance.

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Note Round Trip Delay is available as an option on high performance SwitchProbes; it is not available on other third-party Remote Monitoring (RMON) agents.

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Displaying the Round Trip Delay Resource Monitor Window

The Round Trip Delay application displays, for a specific agent or Frame Relay agent, a list of host names that have round-trip delay configured, including the ping interval and ping response time. To launch Round Trip Delay, take the following steps:

Step 1 Select the Agent or FrameRelay radio button.

Step 2 Do one of the following:

• If you selected Agent, select an agent from the list.

• If you selected FrameRelay, select a Frame Relay agent from the list.

Step 3 Click the Round Trip Delay icon.

The TrafficDirector Round Trip Delay Resource Monitor window (Figure 29-1) opens.

Figure 29-1: TrafficDirector Round Trip Delay Resource Monitor Window

Round Trip Delay Resource Monitor Window

Table 29-1 lists the headings displayed in the Round Trip Delay Resource Monitor window.

Table  29-1: Round Trip Delay Resource Monitor Window Headings

Window Heading	Description
Host	Name or IP address of the host you want to ping
Ping Interval	Number of seconds you specified to elapse between ping intervals
Response Time (ms)	Average response time, in milliseconds, to the ping
Errors	Number of errors that occurred when the agent tried to ping the host