Table of Contents Table of Contents Title and Copyright Information Preface Audience Documentation Accessibility Diversity and Inclusion 1 Overview Introduction Measurement Types External Systems Configurable XML Exporter Getting Started 2 Service Assurance Agent Measurement About Service Assurance Agent SAA Operations Configuration Considerations Topology One-way and Two-way Probes Unmanaged Devices SAA Probe Calculations Supported Operations SAA Responder SAA Templates Applications in IP Service Activator MPLS VPN Measurement-only VPN Configuring SAA Configuration Prerequisites Deployment Considerations Configuring SAA Measurements for Different VPN Connections Configuring SAA for a CE to CE Connection Configuring SAA for a PE to PE Connection using Shadow Routers Configuring SAA for a PE to CE Connection using a Shadow Router Configuring SAA Measurement in IP Service Activator Creating an SAA Template Adding an SAA Operation to a Template Creating a Measurement-only VPN Applying an SAA Template to a VPN 3 MIB-based and NetFlow Measurements Overview of MIB and NetFlow-based Measurements About Committed Access Rate MIB About MIB2 About NetFlow NetFlow Architecture and Components About Flows About UDP Formats About Aggregation Configuring Measurement Types in IP Service Activator Configuration Considerations Reports Policy Target Levels CAR MIBs NetFlow Applying NetFlow or MIB-based Measurements to a Policy Target 4 Setting Up IP Service Activator for Integration Modeling External Systems Types of External System Creating an External System Creating Collectors Roles and Measurement Parameters Creating a Collector in IP Service Activator 5 Generic Exporter Generic Exporter Integration with IP Service Activator Key Integration Components TopologyExporter.xml Filtering Customizing Integration TopologyExporterConfig.xml TopologyExporter.xsl TopologyExporter.txt Invoking the Generic Exporter Configuring the Generic Exporter SNMP Community String Error Reporting A TopologyExporterConfig.xml Fields TopologyExporterConfig.xml Fields