eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by PROCURCPUTest

One of the probable reasons for the poor performance of the HP Procurve 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 CPU Statistics test.

At configured intervals, this test monitors the current CPU utilization of the switch and reports excessive usage (if any).

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the HP Procurve Switch that is to be monitored

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
CPU_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.