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Catalyst 3850 Series Switch High CPU Usage Troubleshoot

Updated: April 4, 2014 Document ID: 117594

Contents

Introduction

Background Information

Case Study: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Interrupts

Step 1: Identify the Process that Consumes CPU Cycles

Step 2: Determine the CPU Queue that Causes the High CPU Usage Condition

Step 3: Dump the Packet Sent to the CPU

Step 4: Use FED Tracing

Sample Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Script for the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switch

Related Information

Introduction
This document describes how to troubleshoot CPU usage concerns, primarily due to interrupts, on
the new Cisco IOS®-XE platform. Additionally, the document introduces several new commands on
this platform that are integral in order to troubleshoot such problems.

Background Information
It is important to understand how Cisco IOS-XE is built. With Cisco IOS-XE, Cisco has moved to a
Linux kernel and all of the subsystems have been broken down into processes. All of the
subsystems that were inside Cisco IOS before - such as the modules drivers, High Availability
(HA), and so on - now run as software processes within the Linux Operating System (OS). Cisco
IOS itself runs as a daemon within the Linux OS (IOSd). Cisco IOS-XE retains not only the same
look and feel of the classic Cisco IOS, but also its operation, support, and management.
Here are some useful de nitions:

Forwarding Engine Driver (FED): This is the heart of the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switch and
is responsible for all hardware programming/forwarding.

IOSd: This is the Cisco IOS daemon that runs on the Linux kernel. It is run as a software process
within the kernel.

Packet Delivery System (PDS): This is the architecture and process of how packets are
delivered to and from various subsystem. As an example, it controls how packets are delivered
from the FED to the IOSd and vice versa.

Handle: A handle can be thought of as a pointer. It is a means to discover more detailed

information about speci c variables that are used in the outputs that the box produces. This is
similar to the concept of Local Target Logic (LTL) indices on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
Switch.

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Case Study: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Interrupts

The troubleshoot and veri cation process in this section can be broadly used for high CPU usage
due to interrupts.

Step 1: Identify the Process that Consumes CPU Cycles

The show process cpu command naturally displays how the CPU currently looks. Notice that the
Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Swtich uses four cores, and you see the CPU usage listed for all four
cores:

3850-2#show processes cpu sort | exclude 0.0

Core 0: CPU utilization for five seconds: 53%; one minute: 39%; five minut
Core 1: CPU utilization for five seconds: 43%; one minute: 57%; five minut
Core 2: CPU utilization for five seconds: 95%; one minute: 60%; five minut
Core 3: CPU utilization for five seconds: 32%; one minute: 31%; five minut
PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process
8525 472560 2345554 7525 31.37 30.84 30.83 0 iosd
5661 2157452 9234031 698 13.17 12.56 12.54 1088 fed
6206 19630 74895 262 1.83 0.43 0.10 0 eicored
6197 725760 11967089 60 1.41 1.38 1.47 0 pdsd

From the output, it is clear that the Cisco IOS daemon consumes a major portion of the CPU along
with the FED, which is the heart of this box. When CPU usage is high due to interrupts, you see
that IOSd and FED use a major portion of the CPU, and these subprocesses (or a subset of these)
use the CPU:

FED Punject TX
FED Punject RX
FED Punject replenish
FED Punject TX complete

You can zoom into any of these processes with the show process cpu detailed <process>
command. Since IOSd is responsible for the majority of the CPU usage, here is a closer look into
that.

3850-2#show processes cpu detailed process iosd sort | ex 0.0

Core 0: CPU utilization for five seconds: 36%; one minute: 39%; five minute
Core 1: CPU utilization for five seconds: 73%; one minute: 52%; five minute
Core 2: CPU utilization for five seconds: 22%; one minute: 56%; five minute
Core 3: CPU utilization for five seconds: 46%; one minute: 40%; five minute
PID T C TID Runtime(ms)Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process
(%) (%) (%)
8525 L 556160 2356540 7526 30.42 30.77 30.83 0 iosd
8525 L 1 8525 712558 284117 0 23.14 23.33 23.38 0 iosd
59 I 1115452 4168181 0 42.22 39.55 39.33 0 ARP Sn
198 I 3442960 4168186 0 25.33 24.22 24.77 0 IP Hos
30 I 3802130 4168183 0 24.66 27.88 27.66 0 ARP In
283 I 574800 3225649 0 4.33 4.00 4.11 0 DAI Pa

3850-2#show processes cpu detailed process fed sorted | ex 0.0

Core 0: CPU utilization for five seconds: 45%; one minute: 44%; five minute
C 1 C ili i f fi d 38% i 44% fi
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Core 1: CPU utilization for five seconds: 38%; one minute: 44%; five minute
Core 2: CPU utilization for five seconds: 42%; one minute: 41%; five minute
Core 3: CPU utilization for five seconds: 32%; one minute: 30%; five minute
PID T C TID Runtime(ms)Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Proces
(%) (%) (%)
5638 L 612840 1143306 536 13.22 12.90 12.93 1088 fed
5638 L 3 8998 396500 602433 0 9.87 9.63 9.61 0 Punj
5638 L 3 8997 159890 66051 0 2.70 2.70 2.74 0 Punj

The output (IOSd CPU output) shows that ARP Snoop, IP Host Track Process, and ARP Input are
high. This is commonly seen when the CPU is interrupted due to ARP packets.

Step 2: Determine the CPU Queue that Causes the High CPU Usage Condition
The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switch has a number of queues that cater to di erent types of
packets (the FED maintains 32 RX CPU queues, which are queues that go directly to the CPU). It is
important to monitor these queues in order to discover which packets are punted to the CPU and
which are processed by the IOSd. These queues are per ASIC.

Note: There are two ASICs: 0 and 1. Ports 1 through 24 belong to ASIC 0.

In order to look at the queues, enter the show platform punt statistics port-asic <port-asic>
cpuq <queue> direction <rx|tx> command.
In the show platform punt statistics port-asic 0 cpuq -1 direction rx command, the -1 argument
lists all of the queues. Therefore, this command lists all receive queues for Port-ASIC 0.
Now, you must identify which queue pushes a large number of packets at a high rate. In this
example, an examination of the queues revealed this culprit:

<snip>
RX (ASIC2CPU) Stats (asic 0 qn 16 lqn 16):
RXQ 16: CPU_Q_PROTO_SNOOPING
----------------------------------------
Packets received from ASIC : 79099152
Send to IOSd total attempts : 79099152
Send to IOSd failed count : 1240331
RX suspend count : 1240331
RX unsuspend count : 1240330
RX unsuspend send count : 1240330
RX unsuspend send failed count : 0
RX dropped count : 0
RX conversion failure dropped : 0
RX pkt_hdr allocation failure : 0
RX INTACK count : 0
RX packets dq'd after intack : 0
Active RxQ event : 9906280
RX spurious interrupt : 0
<snip>

The queue number is 16 and the queue name is CPU_Q_PROTO_SNOOPING.

Another way to discover the culprit queue is to enter the show platform punt client command.

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3850-2#show platform punt client

tag buffer jumbo fallback packets received failure
alloc free bytes conv bu
27 0/1024/2048 0/5 0/5 0 0 0 0
65536 0/1024/1600 0/0 0/512 0 0 0 0

65537 0/ 512/1600 0/0 0/512 1530 1530 244061 0

65538 0/ 5/5 0/0 0/5 0 0 0 0
65539 0/2048/1600 0/16 0/512 0 0 0 0
65540 0/ 128/1600 0/8 0/0 0 0 0 0
65541 0/ 128/1600 0/16 0/32 0 0 0 0
65542 0/ 768/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
65544 0/ 96/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
65545 0/ 96/1600 0/8 0/32 0 0 0 0
65546 0/ 512/1600 0/32 0/512 0 0 0 0
65547 0/ 96/1600 0/8 0/32 0 0 0 0
65548 0/ 512/1600 0/32 0/256 0 0 0 0
65551 0/ 512/1600 0/0 0/256 0 0 0 0
65556 0/ 16/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
65557 0/ 16/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
65558 0/ 16/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
65559 0/ 16/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
65560 0/ 16/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
s65561 421/ 512/1600 0/0 0/128 79565859 131644697 478984244
65563 0/ 512/1600 0/16 0/256 0 0 0 0
65564 0/ 512/1600 0/16 0/256 0 0 0 0
65565 0/ 512/1600 0/16 0/256 0 0 0 0
65566 0/ 512/1600 0/16 0/256 0 0 0 0
65581 0/ 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0
131071 0/ 96/1600 0/4 0/0 0 0 0 0
fallback pool: 98/1500/1600
jumbo pool: 0/128/9300

Determine the tag for which the most packets have been allocated. In this example, it is 65561.
Then, enter this command:

3850-2#show pds tag all | in Active|Tags|65561

Active Client Client
Tags Handle Name TDA SDA FDA TBufD
65561 7296672 Punt Rx Proto Snoop 79821397 79821397 0 79821397

This ouput shows that the queue is Rx Proto Snoop.

The s before the 65561 in the output of the show platform punt client command means that the
FED handle is suspended and overwhelmed by the number of incoming packets. If the s does not
vanish, it means the queue is stuck permanently.

Step 3: Dump the Packet Sent to the CPU

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In the results of the show pds tag all command, notice a handle, 7296672, is reported next to the
Punt Rx Proto Snoop.
Use this handle in the show pds client <handle> packet last sink command. Notice that you must
enable debug pds pktbuf-last before you use the command. Otherwise you encounter this error:

3850-2#show pds client 7296672 packet last sink

% switch-2:pdsd:This command works in debug mode only. Enable debug using
"debug pds pktbuf-last" command

With the debug enabled, you see this output:

3850-2#show pds client 7296672 packet last sink

Dumping Packet(54528) # 0 of Length 60
-----------------------------------------
Meta-data
0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010 00 00 16 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 5a 57 f0 ............UZW.
0020 00 00 00 00 fd 01 10 df 00 5b 70 00 00 10 43 00 .........[p...C.
0030 00 10 43 00 00 41 fd 00 00 41 fd 00 00 00 00 00 ..C..A...A......
0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0050 00 00 00 3c 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 19 00 00 00 00 ...<............
0060 01 01 b6 80 00 00 00 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .......O........
0070 01 04 d8 80 00 00 00 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .......3........
0080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0090 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Data
0000 ff ff ff ff ff ff aa bb cc dd 00 00 08 06 00 01 ................
0010 08 00 06 04 00 01 aa bb cc dd 00 00 c0 a8 01 0a ................
0020 ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 a8 01 14 00 01 02 03 04 05 ................
0030 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 11 ............

This command dumps the last packet received by the sink, which is IOSd in this example. This
shows that it dumps the header and it can be decoded with Terminal-based Wireshark (TShark).
The Meta-data is for internal use by the system, but the Data output provides actual packet
information. The Meta-data, however, remains extremely useful.
Notice line that starts with 0070. Use the rst 16 bits after that as shown here:

3850-2#show platform port-asic ifm iif-id 0x0104d88000000033

Interface Table
Interface IIF-ID : 0x0104d88000000033
Interface Name : Gi2/0/20
Interface Block Pointer : 0x514d2f70
Interface State : READY
Interface Stauts : IFM-ADD-RCVD, FFM-ADD-RCVD
Interface Ref-Cnt : 6
Interface Epoch : 0
Interface Type : ETHER
Port Type : SWITCH PORT
Port Location : LOCAL

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Slot : 2
Unit : 20
Slot Unit : 20
Acitve : Y
SNMP IF Index : 22
GPN : 84
EC Channel : 0
EC Index : 0
ASIC : 0
ASIC Port : 14
Port LE Handle : 0x514cd990
Non Zero Feature Ref Counts
FID : 48(AL_FID_L2_PM), Ref Count : 1
FID : 77(AL_FID_STATS), Ref Count : 1
FID : 51(AL_FID_L2_MATM), Ref Count : 1
FID : 13(AL_FID_SC), Ref Count : 1
FID : 26(AL_FID_QOS), Ref Count : 1
Sub block information
FID : 48(AL_FID_L2_PM), Private Data &colon; 0x54072618
FID : 26(AL_FID_QOS), Private Data &colon; 0x514d31b8

The culprit interface is identi ed here. Gig2/0/20 is where there is a tra c generator that pumps
ARP tra c. If you shut this down, then it would resolve the problem and minimize the CPU usage.

Step 4: Use FED Tracing

The only drawback with the method discussed in the last section is that it only dumps the last
packet that goes into the sink, and it might not be the culprit.
A better way to troubleshoot this would be to use a feature called FED tracing. Tracing is a packet
capture method (using various lters) that are pushed by the FED to the CPU. FED tracing is not as
simple as the Netdr feature on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch, however. Here the process
is broken into steps:

1. Enable detail tracking. By default, event tracing is on. You must enable detail tracing in order
to capture the actual packets:

3850-2#set trace control fed-punject-detail enable

2. Fine-tune the capture bu er. Determine how deep your bu ers are for detail tracing and
increase as needed.

3850-2#show mgmt-infra trace settings fed-punject-detail

One shot Trace Settings:

Buffer Name: fed-punject-detail

Default Size: 32768
Current Size: 32768
Traces Dropped due to internal error: No
Total Entries Written: 0
One shot mode: No

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One shot and full: No

Disabled: False

You can change the bu er size with this command:

3850-2#set trace control fed-punject-detail buffer-size <buffer size>

The values available to you are:

3850-2#set trace control fed-punject-detail buffer-size ?

<8192-67108864> The new desired buffer size, in bytes
default Reset trace buffer size to default

3. Add capture lters. You now need to add various lters for the capture. You can add di erent
lters and either choose to match all or match any of those for your capture.

Filters are added with this command:

3850-2#set trace fed-punject-detail direction rx filter_add <filter>

These options are currently available:

3850-2#set trace fed-punject-detail direction rx filter_add ?

cpu-queue rxq 0..31
field field
offset offset

Now you must link things together. Remember the culprit queue that was identi ed in Step 2 of
this troubleshoot process? Since queue 16 is the queue that pushes a large number of packets
towards the CPU, it makes sense to trace this queue and see what packets are punted to the
CPU by it.

You can choose to trace any queue with this command:

3850-2#set trace fed-punject-detail direction rx filter_add cpu-queue <s

<end queue>

Here is the command for this example:

3850-2#set trace fed-punject-detail direction rx filter_add cpu-queue 16

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You must choose either a match all or a match any for your lters and then enable the trace:

3850-2#set trace fed-punject-detail direction rx match_all

3850-2#set trace fed-punject-detail direction rx filter_enable

4. Display ltered packets. You can display the packets captured with the show mgmt-infra
trace messages fed-punject-detail command.

3850-2#show mgmt-infra trace messages fed-punject-detail

[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0c9 5661]
00 00 00 00 00 4e 00 40 07 00 02 08 00 00 51 3b
00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
00 00 00 00 20 00 00 0e 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 74
00 00 00 04 00 54 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0ca 5661]

ff ff ff ff ff ff aa bb cc dd 00 00 08 06 00 01
08 00 06 04 00 01 aa bb cc dd 00 00 c0 a8 01 0a
ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 a8 01 14 00 01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 11 f6 b9 10 32
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0cb 5661] Frame descriptors:
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0cc 5661]
=========
fdFormat=0x4 systemTtl=0xe
loadBalHash1=0x8 loadBalHash2=0x8
spanSessionMap=0x0 forwardingMode=0x0
destModIndex=0x0 skipIdIndex=0x4
srcGpn=0x54 qosLabel=0x41
srcCos=0x0 ingressTranslatedVlan=0x3
bpdu=0x0 spanHistory=0x0
sgt=0x0 fpeFirstHeaderType=0x0
srcVlan=0x1 rcpServiceId=0x2
wccpSkip=0x0 srcPortLeIndex=0xe
cryptoProtocol=0x0 debugTagId=0x0
vrfId=0x0 saIndex=0x0
pendingAfdLabel=0x0 destClient=0x1
appId=0x0 finalStationIndex=0x74
decryptSuccess=0x0 encryptSuccess=0x0
rcpMiscResults=0x0 stackedFdPresent=0x0
spanDirection=0x0 egressRedirect=0x0
redirectIndex=0x0 exceptionLabel=0x0
destGpn=0x0 inlineFd=0x0
suppressRefPtrUpdate=0x0 suppressRewriteSideEfects=0x0
cmi2=0x0 currentRi=0x1
currentDi=0x513b dropIpUnreachable=0x0
srcZoneId=0x0 srcAsicId=0x0
originalDi=0x0 originalRi=0x0
srcL3IfIndex=0x2 dstL3IfIndex=0x0
dstVlan=0x0 frameLength=0x40
fdCrc=0x7 tunnelSpokeId=0x0

=========
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0cd 5661]
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0ce 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_rx_process
830):RX: Q: 16, Tag: 65561
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0cf 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_physic
579):RX: Physical IIF-id 0x104d88000000033
[11/25/13 07:05:53 814 UTC 2eb0d0 5661] PUNT PATH (fed punject get src l3
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[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d0 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_src_l3
434):RX: L3 IIF-id 0x101b6800000004f
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d1 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_fd_2_pds_m
RX: l2_logical_if = 0x0
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d2 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_source
RX: Source Cos 0
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d3 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_vrf_id
RX: VRF-id 0
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d4 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_src_zo
RX: Zone-id 0
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d5 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_fd_2_pds_m
RX: get_src_zoneid failed
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d6 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_acl_lo
695): RX: : Invalid CMI2
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d7 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_fd_2_pds_m
get_acl_log_direction failed
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d8 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_acl_fu
724):RX: DI 0x513b ACL Full Direction 1
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0d9 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_source
RX: Source SGT 0
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0da 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_first_
RX: FirstHeaderType 0
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0db 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_rx_process
RX: fed_punject_pds_send packet 0x1f00 to IOSd with tag 65561
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0dc 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_rx_process
RX: **** RX packet 0x2360 on qn 16, len 128 ****
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0dd 5661]
buf_no 0 buf_len 128

<snip>

This output provides plenty of information and should typically be enough to discover where the
packets come from and what is contained in them.

The rst part of the header dump is again the Meta-data that is used by the system. The
second part is the actual packet.

ff ff ff ff ff ff - destination MAC address

aa bb cc dd 00 00 - source MAC address

You can choose to trace this source MAC address in order to discover the culprit port (once you
have identi ed that this is the majority of the packets that are being punted from queue 16; this
output only shows one instance of the packet and the other output/packets are clipped).

However, there is a better way. Notice that logs that are present after the header information:

[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0ce 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_rx_process

830):RX: Q: 16, Tag: 65561
[11/25/13 07:05:53.814 UTC 2eb0cf 5661] PUNT PATH (fed_punject_get_physic
579):RX: Physical IIF-id 0x104d88000000033

The rst log clearly tells you from which queue and tag this packet comes. If you were not aware
of the queue eariler, this is a easy way to identify which queue it was.
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The second log is even more useful, because it provides the physical Interface ID Factory (IIF)-
ID for the source interface. The hex value is a handle that can be used in order to dump
information about that port:

3850-2#show platform port-asic ifm iif-id 0x0104d88000000033

Interface Table
Interface IIF-ID : 0x0104d88000000033
Interface Name : Gi2/0/20
Interface Block Pointer : 0x514d2f70
Interface State : READY
Interface Stauts : IFM-ADD-RCVD, FFM-ADD-RCVD
Interface Ref-Cnt : 6
Interface Epoch : 0
Interface Type : ETHER
Port Type : SWITCH PORT
Port Location : LOCAL
Slot : 2
Unit : 20
Slot Unit : 20
Acitve : Y
SNMP IF Index : 22
GPN : 84
EC Channel : 0
EC Index : 0
ASIC : 0
ASIC Port : 14
Port LE Handle : 0x514cd990
Non Zero Feature Ref Counts
FID : 48(AL_FID_L2_PM), Ref Count : 1
FID : 77(AL_FID_STATS), Ref Count : 1
FID : 51(AL_FID_L2_MATM), Ref Count : 1
FID : 13(AL_FID_SC), Ref Count : 1
FID : 26(AL_FID_QOS), Ref Count : 1
Sub block information
FID : 48(AL_FID_L2_PM), Private Data &colon; 0x54072618
FID : 26(AL_FID_QOS), Private Data &colon; 0x514d31b8

You have once again identi ed the souce interface and culprit.

Tracing is a powerful tool that is critical in order to troubleshoot high CPU usage problems and
provides plenty of information in order to succesfully resolve such a situation.

Sample Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Script for the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series
Switch
Use this command in order to trigger a log to be generated at a speci c threshold:

process cpu threshold type total rising <CPU %> interval <interval in secon
switch <switch number>

The log generated with the command looks like this:

*Jan 13 00:03:00.271: %CPUMEM-5-RISING_THRESHOLD: 1 CPUMEMd[6300]: Thresho

50, Total CPU Utilzation(total/Intr) :50/0, Top 3 processes(Pid/Util) : 862
5753/12, 9663/0

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The log generated provides this information:

The total CPU utilization at the time of the trigger. This is identi ed by Total CPU
Utilzation(total/Intr) :50/0 in this example.
Top processes - these are listed in the format of PID/CPU%. So in this example, these are:
8622/25 - 8622 is PID for IOSd and 25 implies that this process is us
5753/12 - 5733 is PID for FED and 12 implies that this process is usi

The EEM script is shown here:

event syslog pattern "%CPUMEM-5-RISING_THRESHOLD"

action 0.1 syslog msg "high CPU detected"
action 0.2 cli command "enable"
action 0.3 cli command "show process cpu sorted | append nvram:<filename>.
action 0.4 cli command "show process cpu detailed process <process name|pr
sorted | nvram:<filename>.txt"
action 0.5 cli command "show platform punt statistics port-asic 0 cpuq -1
direction rx | append nvram:<filename>.txt"
action 0.6 cli command "show platform punt statistics port-asic 1 cpuq -1
direction rx | append nvram:<filename>.txt"
action 0.7 cli command "conf t"
action 0.8 cli command "no event manager applet highcpu"

Note: The process cpu threshold command does not currently work in the 3.2.X train.
Another point to remember is that this command looks at the average CPU utilzation among
the four cores and generates a log when this average reaches the percentage that has been
de ned in the command.

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