Monitoring Cat4006 switch bandwidth

[suhon]

I would like to know if there is any command, technique or recommendations on measuring the bandwidth consumption (in % or bytes/sec) on a Cat 4K switch. Thanks.

[donewald]

"show system" will show over all backplane utilization and if you want a per port type utilization you could use a tool like MRTG to get this. Here's a link for MRTG if you want to look into this.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Hope this helps you,

Don

[suhon]

Thanks Don. Is there any other commands I can use to get more info to substantiate that my switch is not "overloaded"?

[donewald]

You and use the "ps" commands to look at your Supervisor CPU as well if this is of interest to you. Other than that good SNMP tools, like MRTG , are the best ways to look at specific port utilization.

Hope this helps you,

Don