Overview
The Qualify Test is a snapshot of the current Internet connection between you and LiveVox. The test is intended to gauge the health of your Internet connection. This document provides instructions on how to run the Qualify Test.
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You must run the Qualify Test only when an issue occurs (as opposed to running it when an issue does not currently exist or if the issue occurred in the past). |
Qualify Test Site
The following table contains links to the Qualify Test site for the LiveVox environments.
FAQs
What to do if an issue occurred earlier?
Keep monitoring your system. Provide the following information (at a minimum) about the occurrence to LiveVox:
- Timestamps
- Call examples
- Number of affected agents
- Number of affected locations
- How the agent was establishing the audio path
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Run the Qualify Test only when the issue occurs. |
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If you send the results of the test to LiveVox via email (default subject line: VoIP Quality Report NA3 - JV Test.msg), depending on the results, LiveVox performs the following steps: Expand |
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| The results cannot show more than 20 hops. Where to see this? In the email you will see the following section. Click on the link:
After clicking on it, you will be routed to a page where you have to look for the below section and there you will see the amount of hops, in this case this is not an issue because the total amount is 14.
What to do if the # of hops is greater than 20 hops? Don't escalate the case, just recommend the client to check with their ISP why the routing is taking this amount of hops. If the client continues pushing back, escalate and make sure you highlight this result. |
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| The result cannot show more than 200ms of RTT (Average)
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| This average could be bigger if the agents are in locations such as India or Phillipines. The maximum here could be 300ms. |
- The result cannot have more than 20 ms of Jitter.
- The result cannot have less than 3.0 MOS score → Min value: 0 (worst) - Max value: 4.2 (best)
- The result cannot have 3-4% packet loss on the upstream or downstream since this could cause audio quality issues.
Where to see this? In the email you will see the following section. You can click on the link of see this specific item in the email:
If you click on the link, the information will be available in the next section:
What to do if one or more of the above results appear? Don't escalate the case, just recommend the client to check with their ISP. If the client continues pushing back, escalate and make sure you highlight this result.
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| If some logical port is blocked the test will show it (TCP 80, TCP 443, TCP 8080, UDP 5060, TCP 5061, TCP 5071, UDP 15001-15005, UDP 20001-20005 and UDP 29991-29995). However, it is important to remark that the port may be or not the cause of the issue depending on the implementation that the client has (how they establish the audio path):
How to understand the above? If a client is establishing the audio path via WebRTC and the result shows that the port TCP 5061 is blocked but the TCP 8080 is enabled, then, this is not the cause of the issue.
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| Ports MUST BE ENABLED only in the OUTBOUND direction. So, if you are recommending the client to enable a port, make sure you tell them this. |
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What to Do If You Cannot Run the Qualify Test?
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You cannot run the Qualify Test because of security or if you are using the NA3.VA2 environment. |
Perform the following steps:
- Have your IT department run the following commands from the affected network:
- ping
- pathping:
- tracert:
- Share the results of the commands with LiveVox and escalate the case with this information.