Can the Catalyst C1300 show a timeline of the CPU or memory usage

[Tim T]

I would like to know if there are cli commands or anything on the web GUI that would be able to show the CPU and memory usage of the past 24 hours on a Catalyst C1300 switch. If there aren't any, are there any workarounds? 

[marce1000]

  - In general have a look at : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/campus-lan-switches-access/Catalyst-1200-and-1300-Switches/Admin-Guide/catalyst-1300-admin-guide/status-and-statistics.html

  M.

[Jens Albrecht]

Hello @Tim T,

for these lower-end switches you have to use the WebGUI to check the hardware resource utilization.
The commands used on enterprise-class switches do not work on the 1200/1300 switches so that you cannot use the CLI to monitor hardware resources like CPU or memory.

Therefore, you need to login to the WebGUI and navigate to "Status and Statistics" --> "Hardware Resource Utilization" for a graphical display of hardware resource utilization including memory.

You can also add the "Resource Utilization" module to the dashboard so that you can monitor this directly from the dashboard view.

HTH!

[Leo Laohoo]

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@Tim T wrote:
If there aren't any, are there any workarounds? 

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SNMP

[Jens Albrecht · Accepted solution]

In general, SNMP is a good alternative, however, in case of the 1200/1300 series switches their SNMP capabilities appear to be as limited as their CLI.

There is also very little documentation regarding the SNMP capabilities beside a quick overview that can be found here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/smb/switches/Cisco-Business-Switching/kmgmt3636-snmpv3-common-oids-cbs350.html

There have been quite a few discussions already how to query basic parameters like memory or temperature but without success. So you might try a SNMP walk to find the OIDs you need but there is a chance that they simply do not exist on these platforms.