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What's New in This Release

New Features in IPM 4.2.

What's New in This Release

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Internetwork Performance Monitor 4.2 is the latest release of IPM and it forms a part of the LAN Management Solutions (LMS) 3.2.

For details see New Features in IPM 4.2.

New Features in IPM 4.2.

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The following are the new features and enhancements in Internetwork Performance Monitor 4.2:

•Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) Support

•Planned Network Outage Support

•Enabling and Disabling IPSLA Syslog Support

•IPM Summarized Reports

•Flexible Schedulable Option for IPM Reports

•Open Database Schema Support

Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) Support

Internetwork Performance Monitor 4.2 supports Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF). It does this by configuring collectors with the VRF name that you specify.

For more information, see Configuring Collectors.

Planned Network Outage Support

Collector Manager is enhanced to support planned network outage intervals for existing collectors. IPM allows you to specify the start and end times for selected collectors

For more information, see Managing Outgage Details.

Enabling and Disabling IPSLA Syslog Support

You can select devices and enable or disable IPSLA syslog support for these devices.

For more information, see IPSLA Syslog Configuration.

IPM Summarized Reports

This release allows you to create summarized reports in IPM. The IPM summarized reports that are supported are:

•IPM Highest Jitter

•IPM Lowest Availability

•IPM Highest Latency

•IPM Violation Summary

For more information, see Creating Summarized Reports.

Flexible Schedulable Option for IPM Reports

IPM reports now have flexible scheduling options that allow you to generate reports. You can:

•Generate daily, weekly, or monthly reports.

•Enable the reports to e-mail notifications to other users.

•Export reports with images to pdf formats.

For more information, see Generating Statistical Reports and Graphs.

Open Database Schema Support

LMS 3.2 supports exposing few database views and definitions.

You can acess the created views using the database access methods such as JDBC and ODBC, from a local or remote server.

To enable the access to applications database, you must run the dbaccess.pl utility from the command line.

See the Open Database Schema Support for LAN Management Solutions 3.2 document for more information on exposed database views and definitions.