06-01-2009 06:31 AM - edited 03-04-2019 04:57 AM
What is the best way to look at a router and/or switch to determine its health other than just reviewing the logs?
06-01-2009 06:35 AM
Check show proc, show mem, show interfaces.
06-01-2009 06:42 AM
I should have added that I have 50 Switches and Routers to monitor. With that in mind what would be the best way?
06-01-2009 07:12 AM
You can use SNMP based products such as Nagios (open source) or Solarwinds NPM (commercial) for monitoring and long term trending of your network devices.
http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/
Hope that helps
06-01-2009 07:15 AM
Using show proc, show mem, show interface what would be the threshold between having a problem and not having one?
06-01-2009 09:11 AM
You need to baseline your setup.
For some of my boxes 80% CPU load is pretty normal as they are doing heavy duty tasks.
However if I see it spiking to 85-90% I would know some recent changes have upset the box.
HTH
Sam
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