How to determine if a SSC-5 IPS is overloaded?

[colfleshg]

    I've read several posts on that I should be looking at the SSC-5's "Processing Load Percentage" instead of the CPU load to determine the health of the module. But at what processing load percent indicates an overloading of the IPS? Should I be looking at this percentage and some other variables like dropped packets?

[Luis Silva Benavides]

Hi,

The inspection load will tell you if it is overload. Another indication is that you will see overruns on the interfaces.

HTH

Luis Silva

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