Routers and Switches Uptimes

[ppl6]

Does anyone know, what are the recomended uptimes for Cisco routers and switches? I believe the it depends on Model/Type.  After how long does a switch or a router needs to be rebooted? If possible, provide me with a list for all models or let me know where I could find this information.

Thank you

[gajoshi]

Hi Parul,

There's no as such recommended uptime as these equipments are quite robust, what you might consider is the memory utilization on the box from time to time and decide weather the unit needs a reload or not, a reload will free up all the unused memory.

You can run the following commands to check the current utilization:

sh mem summary

sh proc mem

(common for both switches and routers)

[ppl6]

Thank you for your response Gaurav. I certainly will consider this

suggestion.

Take care

From: gajoshi

To: Parul Patel ,

Date: 01/27/2012 06:15 AM

Subject: - Re: Routers and Switches Uptimes

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Re: Routers and Switches Uptimes

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Hi Parul,

There's no as such recommended uptime as these equipments are quite

robust, what you might consider is the memory utilization on the box from

time to time and decide weather the unit needs a reload or not, a reload

will free up all the unused memory.