Internetwork Performance Monitor is a network response time and availability troubleshooting application. This application empowers network engineers to proactively troubleshoot network-wide performance to diagnose congestion and latency problems utilizing real time and historical statistics.

As enterprise networks continue to grow in size, scope, and strategic importance, network managers face numerous challenges in maintaining the performance and availability of their network. Furthermore, as enterprises deploy new network applications and services, such as VOIP and streaming video, measurements of network performance must be able to recognize different levels of service based on these different types of network traffic.

IPM helps to meet these challenges by performing proactive network response time measurement. With IPM, network managers have the tool they need to isolate performance problems, locate bottlenecks, diagnose latency and jitter, and perform trend analysis of network response time. Furthermore, IPM can perform path and hop performance analysis between virtually any two points in an IP-based network. IPM removes the guesswork from response time problem diagnosis, thereby helping network managers to be proactive in providing the appropriate level of network response time to their users.

IPM is available as a component within the CiscoWorks Routed WAN Management Solution. As such, it can draw on device inventory information maintained by the CiscoWorks base applications. The server functionality of IPM is supported on either Solaris or Windows platforms..