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About monitoring Memory statistics for DP

L1 Bithead

Hi all,

 

How can I monitor memory statistics on dataplane from the CLI (not SNMP)  ??

 

Regards,

 

HA

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@licenselu,

'show system resources' will show the total, used, and free memory stats right at the top of the response. 

Hey @BPry

 

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't show system resources to view management plane related processes?

 

For viewing dataplane health I would use the "show system resources follow" command. For historic logs you would then use the "dp-monitor" log (> less dp-log dp-monitor.log)

Hello,

 

The less mp-log dp-monitor.log command generates a massive output values !!

Which counter indique the memory used on the DP ?

 

PS: In fact, show system resources gives the mem on the MP...

 

Regards,

 

HA

Hey @licenselu

 

In the output from the dp-monitor, you'd want to start reading from "malloc allocator".

 

If you have access to PANTS or AutoAssistant tools then you can drop a tech support file in there and generate some cool graphs based on DP MEM utilisation as an aggregate or a per process basis.

@LukeBullimore,

Definitely right. The whole reading thing before second coffee is real hard 😉

@LukeBullimoreHey - are you a PA customer?  Did your SE get you access to PANTS ot AutoAssistant?  If so, on-prem or hosted?

Hey @dberber1

 

I'm a partner, Technical Partner of the year 😉

 

Pants is available to ASC Partners

 

https://asctraps.paloaltonetworks.com

 

AutoAssistant I believe is available only for CPSP partners

 

https://autoassistant.paloaltonetworks.com

 

In which case, your best option at the moment would be to create some graphs in excel based on the data from the dp-monitor.log. This log file is contained in a tech support file or otherwise you can obtain it via SCP:

 

> scp export log-file data-plane
+ remote-port SSH port number on remote host
+ source-ip Set source address to specified interface address
* to Destination (username@host:path)

 

Otherwise, reach out to your SE.

 

Cheers,

Luke

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