You can configure a pseudo-hardware timestamp on the switch for real-time performance monitoring (RPM). RPM enables you to configure active probes to track and monitor traffic on the network. To achieve this, RPM exchanges a set of probes with other IP hosts in the network. These probes are sent from a source node to other destination devices in the network that requires tracking. To account for latency or jitter in the communication of probe messages, you can enable timestamping of the probe packets (hardware timestamps.) Typically, the probe is timestamped by the device originating the probe (the RPM client). However, because the switch does not fully support hardware timestamps, you must configure the switch as both the RPM client (the requester) and the RPM server (the responder) to timestamp the RPM packet. You configure pseudo-hardware timestamps at the [edit services rpm] hierarchy level.
