Internetwork Performance Monitor is a network response time and availability troubleshooting application. This application empowers network engineers to proactively troubleshoot network-wide performance to diagnose congestion and latency problems utilizing real time and historical statistics.

IPM is available as a component within the CiscoWorks Routed WAN Management Solution. As such, it can draw on device inventory information maintained by the CiscoWorks base applications. The server functionality of IPM is supported on either Solaris or Windows platforms.