monitoring of cpu and memory usage of pix and asa firewall

[donnie]

Hi all,

Is there any cisco or non cisco tool that i can use to monitor cpu and memory usage of pix and asa firewall? This tool need to be able to generate reports eg on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Pls advise. Thks in advance.

[Jitendriya Athavale]

not sure but looks like a repeat post

https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3192939

please let us know if it is still unanswered

[donnie]

Hi,

Yes i am unable to find a tool that can give me a detail report of the system resources(cpu and memory) of my pix/asa firewall. I have tried using firewall analyzer and netflow both of which do not seem to analyse on system resources of my pix/asa firewall. Thk you!

[mirober2]

Hi Don,

ASDM can generate graphs of the firewall's CPU and memory utilization under the Monitoring > Properties > System Resource Graphs tab. However, you would need to generate these manually so I'm not sure if that helps. You can also use a script to SSH/Telnet to the firewall and run the 'show cpu usage' and 'show memory' commands to get these statistics as well.

You could also check out the MARS product, which may have a more automated approach to what you're looking for:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6241/index.html

Hope that helps.

-Mike