Wireless

Flash clean-up

René Jorissen on December 28, 2015 1 Comment • Tags: #aruba #clean #controller #crash #flash #logs #memory #tar

Lately I upgraded a Aruba Networks wireless controller or at least I tried…… The upload of a new image to the controller has two steps. First the copy process from a TFTP server to the controller and second the actual writing of the new firmware image to flash (system partition). The second step kept showing … Read More

Management

Cacti and HP Procurve

René Jorissen on February 24, 2010 3 Comments • Tags: #cacti #count #cpu #graph #mac #memory #procurve #template

Finding a template for HP Procurve switches wasn’t that hard. I needed to find a template for HP Procurve 2510G switches. The place to look for templates is forums.cacti.net. I searched the forums on the key word “procurve”, which resulted in many hits. I used the template from the article HP procurve 2600 series. After … Read More

Switching

Cisco error message: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL

René Jorissen on February 1, 2010 1 Comment • Tags: #sys2mallocfail #allocation #failure #leak #leakage #memory

While looking through some logging on a switch (Cisco Catalyst 3550), I noticed the following messages popping up multiple times in the buffer logging. -Process= "Pool Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 5 -Traceback= 1A57D0 1A6DF4 161B3C 1B2BF0 1B2E38 1C6440 Jan 26 14:45:48.970 CET: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed from 0x161B38, alignment 0 Pool: I/O  … Read More

Configuration Example

Cisco router: determine amount of memory/flash

René Jorissen on January 22, 2010 2 Comments • Tags: #cisco #determine #dram #flash #memory #retrieve #router

Somebody asked me how he could determine the amount of DRAM and flash memory on a Cisco router. I always thought that everybody would know how to determine this information, but since this isn’t matter, I will tell you how you can determine the values. You use the show version command to retrieve the requested … Read More