Tag: memory
Flash clean-up
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
Cacti and HP Procurve
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
Cisco error message: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL
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
Cisco router: determine amount of memory/flash
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