White Paper Abstract:
This document describes baselining concepts and procedures for highly available networks. It includes critical success factors for network baselining and thresholding to help evaluate success. It also provides significant detail for baseline and threshold processes and implementation that follow best practice guidelines identified by Cisco's High Availability Services (HAS) team.
This document takes you step−by−step through the process of baselining. Some current network management
system (NMS) products can help automate this process, however, the baselining process remains the same
whether you use automated or manual tools. If you use these NMS products, you must adjust the default
threshold settings for your unique network environment. It is important to have a process to intelligently
choose those thresholds so that they are meaningful and correct.