Chapter 6. Network Performance Monitoring
This chapter discusses performance monitoring and its importance for Netadmins. Based on the tasks involved in deploying a performance-monitoring system, this chapter is divided into the following parts:
• Performance-monitoring overview
• Deploying network performance-monitoring tools
• Configuring Cisco devices for performance monitoring
Performance-Monitoring Overview
Network performance monitoring is the process of collecting, storing, and analyzing network statistics. The most common parameters for monitoring network performance are as follows:
• Throughput, or network traffic accounting, is the amount of data flowing through an interface in a given amount of time. Throughput is typically expressed ...
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