eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by HPSwCPUUsageTest

One of the probable reasons for the poor performance of the HP switch is excessive CPU usage.  Administrators should hence continuously track how well the switch utilizes CPU resources, so that abnormal usage patterns can be proactively detected and corrected to ensure peak performance of the switch. This CPU usage check can be performed using the HPSwCPUUsageTest test. At configured intervals, this test monitors the current and maximum CPU usage levels of the switch and reports excessive usage (if any).

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the target HP Switch being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Current_Utilization Indicates the percentage of CPU that is currently used by the switch. Percent Ideally, the value should be low. An unusually high value or a consistent increase in this value is indicative of abnormal CPU usage which requires further investigation.
Max_Utilization Indicates the maximum percentage of the CPU used by the switch. Percent