HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance Software - Intelligent Response Agent Release Notes

for the Windows® and Linux operating systems

Software version: 10.00

Publication date: July 2014

This document gives an overview of the features of the Intelligent Response Agent (iRA) software. It contains important information that is not included in guides or Help. You can find information about the following in this document:

Overview
Installation Notes
Recommendations
Known Problems and Limitations
Documentation Updates
Legal Notices

Overview

The Intelligent Response Agent (iRA) is an agent that helps you configure Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring probes on NNMi-managed servers. These probes can generate different types of synthetic traffic to measure the performance of the network between the source and destination nodes. The iRA enables you to configure the probes of the following service types:

Installation Notes

Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing Intelligent Response Agent, are documented in an interactive version of the Intelligent Response Agent 10.00 Interactive Installation Guide. The Intelligent Response Agent 10.00 Interactive Installation Guide is included on the Intelligent Response Agent installation media as the iRA_interactive_installation_en.zip file. For instructions explaining how to extract and view the Intelligent Response Agent 10.00 Interactive Installation Guide, see the iRA_interactive_installation_en_README.txt file located at the root location of the product's installation media.

The iRA provides you with a set of command line tools that help you configure probes and view the status of the probes.
For more information about command line tools, see the Intelligent Response Agent Command Reference, which is available on the installation media.

Recommendations

When you configure and distribute the iRA probes, follow these recommendations to maintain the optimum response time, CPU usage, and memory consumption on the iRA system:

For the supported hardware system requirements, see the NNM iSPI Performance for QA support matrix document (nmQAispi_supportmatrix_en.html).

Known Problems and Limitations

After you restart the iRA, you must manually restart the UDP responder on the iRA system.

Documentation Updates

The first page of this release notes document contains the following identifying information:

Legal Notices

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Acknowledgements

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation. (http://www.apache.org)

This product includes software developed by the Indiana University Extreme! Lab. (http://www.extreme.indiana.edu)

This product includes software developed by The Legion of The Bouncy Castle. (http://www.bouncycastle.org)

This product contains software developed by Trantor Standard Systems Inc. (http://www.trantor.ca)