I bought my NetMRI primarily to do Avaya VoIP assessments before an Avaya Parner installs a system. I was told that the NetMRI included a VoIP test. Now I have found out that the test only works with Cisco gear that you have RW SNMP access to, I feel a little cheated . I need a true VoIP test that I can run reguardless of equipment manufacturer. One that gives me Packet Loss, Jitter, and Latency statistics, and most importantly an MOS score. Can you guys integrate something like this (http://www.myvoipmcs.com/index.html) into the NetMRI? Can it be done quickly? Let me know if this can be done and how I can help.

I’m not a netcordia employee but I can’t see how they can do what you ask without a major rethink of strategy. The NetMRI is an agent less  network tool. This means they leverage what the network equipment itself can do. If you have routers from a supplier that doesn’t support SAA or a similar protocol, it’s hand are tied.

From the site you mention,  “Web-delivered Remote Agents and Satellite Servers enable connection testing between two remote systems to test specific network paths.”  So you would have to provide a PC or server on the endpoint Vlans for every subnet being used for voice. Netcordia could possibly put this agent on the NetMRI but without distributing it to servers, it would only be able test to and from the MRI itself and not from the call center to the users which is what you normally want.

If Netcordia decide to use agents, that makes it a whole different tool.

 Bob Munson (Eqalis)

I should have been more specific. I am looking for just the test to be embedded into the NetMRI's web interface. I am not interested in using any remote agents.