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Monday, February 14, 2011

Trap CPU Utilization

A lot of times, there are problems when you try to connect to the switch by telnet or ssh, the connection is really slow. In some cases, the icmp traffic is dropped. One minute later, the device is back to normal. It is somehow related to the CPU Utilization.  In order to trap the CPU Utilization in syslog. Here is the command to enable it.

Configuration Steps


Make sure that the logging time is accurate.

  • service timestamps log datetime localtime

Enable cpu utilization traps.
  • process cpu threshold type{interrupt | process | total}rising  <number>  interval <interval>falling <number>

Check CPU Utilization
  • show process cpu 



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