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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Software Configuration Guide—Release 8.7
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Chapter 20 Checking Status and Connectivity
Using System Warnings on Port Counters
Spanning-tree error information is provided for the following:
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Ports that go from the blocking to the forwarding state
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Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) skewing that exceeds a fixed threshold
These sections describe how to use the system warning feature on the Catalyst 6500 series switches:
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Executing System Warnings on Port Counters, page 20-20
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Executing Hardware Level Warnings on Port Counters, page 20-23
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Executing Spanning-Tree Warnings on Port Counters, page 20-23
Executing System Warnings on Port Counters
These sections describe how to execute the system warnings on the port counters:
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Backplane Traffic, page 20-20
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Low Remaining Memory, page 20-21
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Detected Memory Corruption, page 20-21
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NVRAM Logs, page 20-22
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Inband Errors, page 20-22
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UDP Errors, page 20-22
Backplane Traffic
You can configure backplane threshold detection by using a high threshold as a percentage. When
backplane traffic goes over the specified threshold, compared with the previous traffic poll, a syslog
message is generated. However, if you specify a 100-percent threshold (the default), no syslog message
is generated.
For switches with three switching buses, you can configure a threshold and syslog throttling (to control
the syslog event polling and message generation) for each switching bus instead of configuring the
average traffic of all three buses. The throttle interval is 5 minutes.
This example shows how to set a threshold:
Console> (enable)
set traffic monitor help
Usage: set traffic monitor <threshold>
(threshold = 0..100 in percentage)
Console> (enable)
set traffic monitor 60
Traffic monitoring threshold set to 60%.
Console> (enable)
show traffic
Threshold: 60%
Backplane-Traffic Peak Peak-Time
----------------- ---- -------------------------
0% 0% Tue Apr 16 2002, 08:01:53
Fab Chan Input Output
-------- ----- ------
0 0% 0%
1 0% 0%
2 0% 0%
3 0% 0%
4 0% 0%
5 0% 0%