To determine when the assessment will run, click the Schedule view tab.
Throughout a VoIP Readiness Assessment, Vivinet Assessor typically starts a run of simulated VoIP calls every few minutes and measures the performance of the simulated traffic. You can choose to do a quick check of VoIP quality by running a single set of calls and viewing the results.
To schedule a VoIP Quality assessment:
Select the time of day when the VoIP Quality assessment will start. You can choose to Start VoIP quality assessment immediately upon activation, or you can select a specific time using the After activation, wait until ... option.
Select the Duration of each simulated call in minutes and seconds.
Select whether to run One set of calls or to Run a series of calls for a specific number of Days/Hours at selected Intervals.
The number of simulated calls that run during an assessment can be determined by dividing the Duration of the assessment by the Interval between the calls for a series of assessments. Thus, if your assessment runs for an hour and you schedule calls to run every 20 minutes, Vivinet Assessor sends three sets of simulated VoIP calls between the endpoints in your call groups during the assessment.
The minimum interval between call start times is six minutes. Use the minimum interval to emulate heavier call traffic. Or increase the interval to determine how well VoIP performs when traffic is lighter. You can set an initial delay before sending call data, which effectively staggers the sending of call traffic among all the call groups. For more information, see Section 7.10.2, Setting the Initial Delay.
NOTE:The endpoints need some time to report the results of the simulated calls to the Console. Therefore, the minimum length of time between the duration and interval you set must be five minutes. For example, if you set a call duration of five minutes and a calling interval of six minutes, you will be prompted to increase the interval or decrease the duration of the calls. In this case, you could simply increase the calling interval to ten minutes.
If necessary, click Undo Changes to discard your changes and revert to the previous schedule.
Click Validate Schedule to apply your selections to the current assessment and commit them to the database.
Click Save on the File menu to save the assessment in a location of your choice.
You can create or change a stop-assessment threshold for this assessment. For more information, see Section 7.8.3, Configuring Stop-Assessment Thresholds.