Turn It On

To help you get the most functionality, value and ROI from your Cisco
Power Up routers and switches, we want to ensure you’re aware of the many
Turn on all these features to
powerful features residing within. Our Turn It On program is designed
leverage the full value of Cisco
to empower organizations like yours to take full advantage of Cisco’s
routers and switches.
powerful core networking solutions to maximize your productivity,
efficiency and technology investment.
• Protective QoS Features
-- Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
Dynamic Intelligent Routing Solutions: IPSLA, PfR, EEM
-- Network-Based Application
Recognition (NBAR) IP services improve uptime and performance of business-critical applications and contribute to
accomplishing key business objectives. However, historically, it’s proven difficult to deliver differ-
• VRF-Lite/Multi-VRF CE entiated services, monitor service levels and intelligently route around network failures that impact
• Advanced VPN Services: the performance of low-latency applications - resulting in a higher chance of network downtime
-- Dynamic Multipoint VPN and greater potential for decreased network reliability of devices, network paths and applications.
(DMVPN) Three of the most effective tools in empowering your network to remain at maximum
-- Group Encrypted Transport capacity are Cisco IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Performance Routing (PfR) and
(GET VPN) Embedded Event Manager (EEM). Together, these advanced solutions enable powerful real-
time measurement, management and network failure-detection capabilities.
• Catalyst Integrated Security Fea-
This valuable functionality is deployed for effective monitoring of applications and dynamic
tures (CISF)
intelligent routing that provides optimal path selection based on advanced criteria beyond
• Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) Toolkit shortest-path metrics (found in today’s BGP and IGPs) through the network or carrier
• Encapsulated Remote Switched network. The result is greatly elevated performance-aware routing through advanced
Port Analyzer (ERSPAN) monitoring tools, that simplifies network operations. And most of these dynamic tools
already reside in Cisco IOS. All you have to do is turn them on.
• Dynamic Intelligent Routing
Cisco IOS IP SLAs
Solutions Cisco IOS IP SLAs provide a scalable, cost-effective solution for network performance

Dynamic Intelligent Routing Solutions: IPSLA, PfR, EEM

-- IP Service-Level Agreement measurement. Active, automated monitoring continuously measures network performance
(IPSLA) between multiple paths in the network, providing ongoing performance baseline informa-
tion. Now you can continuously, reliably and proactively assure IP service levels, verify
-- Performance Routing (PfR) network operation and monitor network health.
-- Embedded Event Manager Providing hop-by-hop performance statistics between two Cisco routers or between a
(EEM) router and a server, Cisco IP SLAs are also valuable troubleshooting tools. If network perfor-
mance level drops during operations, you can promptly identify the bottleneck and resolve
the problem. Additionally, this powerful solution can perform network assessment for new
IP services and verify Quality of Service (QoS) levels.

Impressive functionality
Providing a suite of automated monitoring solutions, Cisco IP SLAs empower you to maxi-
mize end-to-end network performance.
• Measures performance by sending one or more packets to a destination IP device or a Cisco
Contact your Cisco Systems
router and uses the timestamp information to calculate performance metrics such as jitter, latency,
Engineer for more information network and server response times, packet loss, and MOS voice-quality scores.
and assistance in turning on the • One-direction measurements are also possible
full functionality of your Cisco • Schedule an operation at any point in time or continuously over any interval.
routers and switches. • Can be configured to monitor per-class traffic over the same link by setting the Diff-Serv Code
Point (DSCP) bits.
To learn about enabling • Provides a proactive notification feature with a SNMP trap, automatically alerting network administrators
additional Cisco features, visit when jitter exceeds a pre-set performance threshold between any two points in the network and can
www.cisco.com/go/turniton. be configured to automatically run a new operation when the threshold is crossed.
Valuable benefits
• Automated, real-time, accurate network performance and network health
monitoring
• Capable of verifying and measuring IP service levels and parameters
needed for service level agreements
• Per-class QoS traffic monitoring
• Flexible scheduling
• Proactive notifications with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap
• Hop-by-hop and end-to-end performance measurement
• Controlled through SNMP or Cisco IOS Software Command-Line
Interface (CLI)
• VoIP codec simulation and VoIP quality measurement
Embedded Event Manager
The Cisco IOS IP SLAs Deployment Life Cycle A powerful ally for device and system management, EEM trans-
forms routers or switches running Cisco IOS to become active
Baseline How the Network The Network Performance
is Performing. Baseline Understood. participants rather than passive slaves to external network manage-
Verify the Network Readiness 2 Confidence to Deploy New IP
for New Services with Services and Applications. ment systems. Now you can harness the network intelligence intrin-
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IP SLA Capabilities. sic to Cisco IOS and customize its behavior based on real network
Assure Your events as they happen.
Application and
Service Deployment Based on your defined policies, EEM takes specific actions when
Quality Results.
• Lower Deployment Time the Cisco IOS software recognizes user-defined events. The result
• Reduce Down Time
• Prove Service and
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Fine Tune and Optimize.
is an extremely powerful and flexible set of tools to automate many
Application Differentiation 4 On Going Measurements to network management tasks and direct the operation of Cisco IOS to
• Verify Service Levels Understand Behavior with
• Manage Demand for the Network Proactive Notification. increase availability, collect information and notify external systems
or personnel about critical events.

Go Beyond with EEM

Cisco Performance Routing
Cisco Beyond is a new scripting community that provides an easy-
Cisco PfR comprises a suite of features that take into account
to-use, Web-based file-sharing system where you can download
diverse WAN characteristics including performance, delay, loss,
and share EEM scripts.
and link loading, and make an intelligent decision on the best path
to reach networks and applications. PfR automatically detects path
degradation and responds to avoid continued degradation, and Cisco Beyond, A Scripting Community for EEM
complements traditional routing technologies by using the intelli- • Cisco IOS® Embedded Event Manager
gence of a Cisco IOS infrastructure to improve application perfor- Extremely flexible and powerful onboard,
event driven, scripting facility
mance and availability.
• Cisco Beyond
A place to share scripts, upload, download,
How it works get examples

Unlike classic routing that looks only at reachability, PfR takes into • Now Available
Pre-populated with over a dozen scripts
consideration required traffic service needs, such as low loss or low
delay. The first phase of Cisco PfR intelligently optimizes performance More details:
http://cisco.com/go/eem
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Internet. Later phases of PfR will enhance application intelligence and http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/EEM?page=main

extend this technology across the enterprise network.

Measurable benefits
Integrated advantages
• Eliminates the complexity of trying to split inbound and outbound traffic
Alone, each of these features delivers powerful advantages that
across multiple links while ensuring continuous network availability.
enhance application and network monitoring as well as optimize
• Provides needed application performance when parts of the network routing-process path selections. When integrated, these three
are experiencing performance-degradation problems. solutions functioning as unified platform provide robust, dynamic
functionality that is easily implemented into customer architectures
• Allows multihomed enterprises to use all available WAN or Internet links. to greatly increase uptime and limit operational issues inherent in
optimizing static route paths.
• Automatically determines the best load balancing to optimize
throughput, load, and cost effectiveness. Together, IP SLA and PfR provide a dynamic “best path” selection ca-
pability beyond next-hop routing. By enabling these features, monitor-
• Improves application availability by dynamically routing around network ing of delay, packet-loss or jitter can be done on a specific application
problems like black holes and brownouts. for the entire end-to-end path, and IP SLA features provide feedback
that can dictate at what level or threshold the route should revise its
• Reduces operational costs incurred by enterprises allows the network
path to the network, andPfR ensures networks and applications are
to choose resources appropriately.
reached by the best means available. In tandem, this is an ideal solu-
• Empowers network administrators to provide business policy or tion for dual-carrier models and when there is more than one path to a
application requirements to IP routing. host, network or application.

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assistance in turning on the full functionality and advantages of your Cisco routers and switches.
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