Finding out router resources

[marcusbrutus]

Hi. I just wish to ask how do i determine the resources usage in terms of processor and ram utilization of a router during actual operation. Is there an snmp function that would provide this or do i access the router itself and type a command to access this information.

Thanks in advance.

[johnlloyd_13 · Accepted solution]

use these commands in order to get the router's resource usage: show processes cpu and show processes memory

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Also, on the later IOS versions, there's additional options to the commands that John notes that will provide a simple graph of usage history. For instance, show proc cpu history. (There's one for memory usage too, but I don't recall the syntax off the top of my head.)