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About This Guide
This section describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the Internetwork Performance Monitor Installation Guide. It refers you to related publications and describes online sources of technical information.
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Document Objectives
This guide describes the architecture and supported platforms for the Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM) product. From the information provided in this guide, you should be able to execute the tasks that are necessary to install and verify IPM in your system environment.
Audience
This guide is for the network administrator or operator who installs and verifies the IPM software. The network administrator or operator should be familiar with the following topics:
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Document Organization
This guide is divided into the following chapters:
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Document Conventions
This guide uses basic conventions to represent text and table information.
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Related Documentation
Additional information can be found in the following publications of the IPM documentation set:
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Information about Cisco IOS software-related functions can be found in the following publications:
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can find answers to frequently asked questions about Internetwork Performance Monitor Software Release 2.0 in an appendix in the Internetwork Performance Monitor User Guide and in the online Help.
Online Help
IPM includes a browser-based online Help system that allows you to access different types of background information about using IPM. The online Help system provides overviews, related information, procedures, and glossary terms for IPM. You can select underlined text to access additional Help windows that provide related information.
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Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, CCO provides a wealth of standard and value-added services to Cisco's customers and business partners. CCO services include product information, software updates, release notes, technical tips, the Bug Navigator, configuration notes, brochures, descriptions of service offerings, and download access to public and authorized files.
CCO serves a wide variety of users through two interfaces that are updated and enhanced simultaneously—a character-based version and a multimedia version that resides on the WWW. The character-based CCO supports Zmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP, Internet e-mail, and fax download options, and is excellent for quick access to information over lower bandwidths. The WWW version of CCO provides richly formatted documents with photographs, figures, graphics, and video, as well as hyperlinks to related information.
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For a copy of CCO's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), contact cco-help@cisco.com. For additional information, contact cco-team@cisco.com.
