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NQA CONFIGURATION
When configuring NQA, go to these sections for information you are interested in:
■ “NQA Overview” on page 1047
■ “NQA Configuration Task List” on page 1050
■ “Configuring the NQA Server” on page 1050
■ “Enabling the NQA Client” on page 1051
■ “Creating an NQA Test Group” on page 1051
■ “Configuring an NQA Test Group” on page 1051
■ “Configuring the Collaboration Function” on page 1061
■ “Configuring Trap Delivery” on page 1061
■ “Configuring Optional Parameters Common to an NQA Test Group” on page 
1062
■ “Scheduling an NQA Test Group” on page 1063
■ “Displaying and Maintaining NQA” on page 1064
■ “NQA Configuration Examples” on page 1064
NQA Overview
Introduction to NQA Network Quality Analyzer (NQA) analyzes network performance, services and 
service quality through sending test packets, and provides you with network 
performance and service quality parameters such as jitter, TCP connection delay, 
FTP connection delay and file transfer rate.
With the NQA test results, you can:
1 Know network performance in time and then take corresponding measures.
2 Diagnose and locate network faults.
Features of NQA Supporting multiple test types
Ping can use only the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to test the 
reachability of the destination host and the roundtrip time of a packet to the 
destination. NQA is an enhanced Ping tool used for testing the performance of 
protocols running on networks.
At present, NQA supports nine test types: ICMP-echo, DHCP, FTP, HTTP, UDP-jitter, 
SNMP, TCP, UDP-echo and DLSw.