Hi,

Thanks for ur response.By using the above command i m finding only mem usage..i need to know the cpu utilization

You don't mention which version of software you're using, but with 6.x it shows a bunch of statistics including CPU. You have to "page" through them.

# show statistics host

General Statistics

NTP Statistics

Memory Usage

Summertime Statistics

CPU Statistics

Usage over last 5 seconds = 44

Usage over last minute = 36

Usage over last 5 minutes = 26

Thanks for ur response.My ver is 4.1(5)..showing like bellow..

IDS# sh statistics host

General Statistics

Last Change To Host Config (UTC) = 03:58:53 Tue Dec 04 2007

Command Control Port Device = eth1

Command Control Port Type = tx

Network Statistics

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:FD:7B:97

inet addr:172.X.X.X Bcast:172.

x.x. Mask:255.255.252.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:57782472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:25549317 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

RX bytes:2342748677 (2234.2 Mb) TX bytes:3744649148 (3571.1 Mb)

Interrupt:16 Base address:0xdcc0 Memory:feb20000-feb40000

NTP Statistics

status = Not applicable

Memory Usage

usedBytes = 911388672

freeBytes = 10133504

totalBytes = 921522176

Swap Usage

usedBytes = 0

freeBytes = 0

totalBytes = 0

4.x? sorry, can't help you there, I haven't used that version in years.

I don't know if this method is supported

by Cisco TAC but you can do it quite easily.

I tested this on version 4.1. By the way,

IDS version 4.1 is a LinuxOS.

a- create an account called "test" and assign "service" privilege,

b- logout of the IDS and log back in with

the test account. This will put you in

bash shell,

c- type "su -" and enter the "admin" or "root" password,

d- now you are in superuser mode, type "top".

This will show you cpu usage in real-time.

Thanks a lot..It is working..but its is showing separatly like bellow..What is the meaning of nice in that...so to know the total cpu usage i have to add the all usages apart from idle usage..

CPU states: 18.4% user, 3.7% system, 3.1% nice, 74.7% idle

How familiar with Unix/Linux? That's how

it works. Another command you may want

to use is "vmstat x" where x is the number

of seconds you want it to repeat.

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