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Performance Monitoring on MPLS

From: Thomas Nadeau <tnadeau@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:04:29 -0500
Cc: Per Eirik Heimdal <perheim@frisurf.no>, mpls@UU.NET

How about for all of the applications you mentioned? I think that would be very helpful. After all, operators plan to use MPLS for various applications and we are seeking for a robust MPLS platform that can provide adequate monitoring, not only of performance, but also fault detection, connectivity verification, etc.

        Assuming that the boxes you use support these MIBs, you can use
the following:

        MPLS-LSR-MIB -- LSP monitoring, performance information, notifications.
        MPLS-LDP-MIB -- LDP protocol information, sessions up/down notifications,

        etc...
        MPLS-TE-MIB -- TE tunnel monitoring, performance, notifications.
        Interfaces MIB -- TE tunnels supported as interfaces, or MPLS-enabled

        interfaces, statistics, notifications.
        MPLS-FTN-MIB -- ingress FTN mapping. Will show "hits" on FTN entries.
        PPVPN-MPLS-VPN-MIB -- MPLS/BGP VPN statistics, monitoring
        MPLS-LMP-MIB -- link bundling, performance, stats

        Actually, just take a look at The MPLS Management Overview. It provides
you with an overview of what can be used to manage what. I knew we put this thing
together for a reason. 8)

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-mgmt-overview-00.txt

        Let me know if you still have questions after looking this over.

        --Tom

Enrique
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Nadeau [mailto:tnadeau@cisco.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:46 AM
To: Per Eirik Heimdal
Cc: mpls@UU.NET
Subject: Re: Performance Monitoring on MPLS

Can anybody help with suggestions to what should be monitored on MPLS level to give an impression of the performance? I am thinking of both traffic parameters and operational isssues (indications if an LSP has gone down etc.)

Can you give me an idea of which applications of MPLS
you are interesting in monitoring (i.e.: VPN, TE, PWE3, general/auto-routed)?
That will allow me to be specific about what is available from the IETF
and elsewhere.

--Tom

I would also appreciate references to drafts, RFCs etc. eventually describing this.

Thanks!
BR
Per Eirik

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- Performance Monitoring on MPLS
  - From: "Cuevas, Enrique G, ALCTA" <ecuevas@att.com>