9: Performance Assurance Agent
9 Performance
Assurance Agent
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PAA configuration
The EtherNID Performance Assurance Agent™ can be used measure the jitter, latency and packet loss of a given
network. Two EtherNIDs with matching settings will communicate with each other to collect data.
The PAA can be configured in a point-to-point or point-to-multi-point fashion, either allowing a single PAA instance to
exchange data with another PAA instance or enabling it to communicate with several PAA instances simultaneously.
To view a summary of all PAA probes, open the PAA > Configuration page.
The following information is presented for each probe.
z Index: A unique identifier assigned to the probe.
z Probe name: Unique name assigned to the probe. Click the name to configure the probe.
z Type: Indicates the type of probe. Possible values are:
z layer-2: Probes occurs at layer 2.
z UDP: Probe occurs using UDP.
z Mode: Indicates if a probe generates (source) or collects (sink) measurement packets or does both (bi-dir).
z State: Indicates the probe's current state. Possible values are:
z Enabled: Enabled by configuration.
z Disabled: Disabled by configuration.
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