Know and monitor your network: Determine acceptable benchmarks for network performance characteristics such as jitter, packet loss, packet reordering, utilization and bandwidth
Be proactive: Keep your network always up and running by monitoring your network continuously to detect and troubleshoot problems before they impact users.
Consider doing two tests between the application and the target:
- A target-only test quickly measures the end-to-end activity
- A full-path test takes looks at every layer 3 device between the sequencer host and the target system
Have a troubleshooting plan: Design and implement alerts, traps and escalation to automatically notify you when your SLAs or OLAs are violated.