Configuring Utilization Monitoring

Overview

Utilization monitoring makes it possible for you to monitor utilization of the:

• CPU--the number of packets per second that the CPU on the supervisor module routes (slow path).
• Forwarding engine--the number of packets per second that the 80-series forwarding engines route. This statistic includes packets routed by the forwarding engines on 80-series media modules (FIRE) and on the supervisor module (FORE).

For more information about the slow path and FIRE and FORE paths, see "Routing Overview" in Chapter 1:�Introduction.

For each of these statistics, you can set a high threshold. If this threshold is exceeded, the switch logs the event in the event log, displays a message in the CLI, and sends an SNMP trap to the Trap receiver.

This section contains procedures for the following tasks:

• Enabling Utilization Monitoring
• Enabling Event Logging of Utilization
• Setting a Utilization Threshold
• Viewing Utilization Settings
• Viewing CPU Utilization Statistics
• Viewing Statistics for Forwarding Engine Utilization

You can configure utilization monitoring only by using the CLI. This feature is not available in the Web Agent.