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Medianet Reporting
What is Cisco Medianet?
Cisco's Medianet is an end-to-end architecture that is capable analyzing voice, video and data traffic and
report on loss, latency and jitter thereby helping you optimize rich media applications.It enables you to
monitor the flow of packets in your network and become aware of any issues that might impact the flow
before it starts to significantly impact the performance of the application in question. Performance
monitoring is especially important for video traffic because high quality interactive video traffic is highly
sensitive to network issues. Even minor issues that may not affect other applications can have dramatic
effects on video quality.
NetFlow Analyzer uses this feature of Cisco's Medianet to report on the rich media traffic. It helps you to
become aware of the volume and quality of media traffic in your network bandwidth. NetFlow Analyzer
reports on the volume of media traffic, round trip time, packet loss and jitter along with the source,
destination or application that is responsible for the media traffic. These reports help you isolate network
issues with regard to rich media applications and determine the quality of media traffic.
How do I Enable Cisco Medianet Performance Monitor?
The Cisco Medianet Performance Monitor provides per-flow, per-hop visibility into flow metrics such as
packet loss and network jitter for audio and video streams, and packet loss events and round-trip times
(RTT) for data streams.
1. Prerequisites for Configuring Cisco Performance Monitor
The following prerequisites must be met before you can configure Cisco Performance Monitor:
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The networking device must be running a Cisco IOS release that supports Cisco Performance
Monitor.
IPv4 Traffic
o The networking device must be configured for IPv4 routing.
o Cisco Express Forwarding or distributed Cisco Express Forwarding must be enabled on
your router and on any interfaces on which you want to enable Cisco Performance
Monitor:.
2. Configuration Components of Cisco Performance Monitor
To configure Cisco Performance Monitor, configure many of the same basic elements that you normally
configure for Flexible NetFlow:
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Interface
Policy
Class
Flow monitor
Flow record
Flow exporter
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