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Re: NETMON causing high SNMP Util on router

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Subject: Re: NETMON causing high SNMP Util on router
From: Jorge Jiles <Jorge.Jiles@UALBERTA.CA>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:22:29 -0600
What software version are you running on the 7507? We had a similar problem
and it was code related on the router (documented software problem from
Cisco).


At 05:01 PM 10/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Having a problem where the IP SNMP process on a Cisco 7507 is using a lot of
>CPU. CPU on the router will go to 99% for 20 to 30 min. I look at the
>processes on the
>router and the IP SNMP process is getting 70% of the CPU. I stop netmon and
>CPU drops to 25%. Restart netmon and I'm fine for a while, but at some
>point, the same problem happens and the process repeats.
>
>I'm running the following:
>
>AIX v4.2.1
>Tivoli 3.6.1
>NetView/6000 v5.1.1
>
>For what it's worth, the router is a Cisco 7507 w/ RSP2. Because the SNMP
>process and not the IP forwarding or any of the processes related to
>forwarding data, the traffic has to be SNMP destined for this router. I've
>tried turning netmon tracing on for SNMP requests (tracemask 4), but I've
>got 30,000 objects in my database and this creates quite a bit of ouput, so
>I can't tell what's going on. Is there a better way to see what's happening?
>
>__________________________
>Thanks,
>Sean Davidson
>
>Sr. Network Systems Engineer
>Publix Super Markets, Inc.
>P.O. Box 32015
>Lakeland, Fl. 33802-2015
>Email - sean.davidson@publix.com
>Voice - (863) 686-8754 x6889
>Fax - (863)616-5895
>
.
Jorge A Jiles
Network Analyst
Computing & Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada


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