Description

Under certain architectures the memory and CPU values observed from the CLI only reflect the busy and idle values for the VM containing Junos, however under this VM there are different values, this article will expose a general review for them.

Symptoms

-Hypervisor performance monitoring

-Chassis values monitoring

Solution

From CLI go to shell(this under root user)

start shell

 

Then go to Host Shell

hshell

 

To check on RAM values:

 

-sh-4.1# dmidecode | grep 8192           

Maximum Memory Module Size: 8192 MB      

Installed Size: 8192 MB (Single-bank Connection)

Enabled Size: 8192 MB (Single-bank Connection)      

Size: 8192 MB

 

-sh-4.1# dmidecode | grep "Installed Size"      

Installed Size: Not Installed      

Installed Size: 8192 MB (Single-bank Connection)      

Installed Size: Not Installed      

Installed Size: Not Installed      

Installed Size: 32 kB      

Installed Size: 32 kB      

Installed Size: 256 kB      

Installed Size: 3072 kB

 

To check on CPU values:

 

-sh-4.1# dmidecode | grep Core      

Family: Core i7     

Core Count: 2      

Core Enabled: 2

              Multi-Core

 

To check on SSD values:

 

-sh-4.1#-sh-4.1# smartctl -a /dev/sda

smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64]

(local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net=== START OF INFORMATION

SECTION ===

Device Model:    SATA SSD

Serial Number:   FEB4075918XXXXXXXXXX

Firmware Version: S9FM01.3

User Capacity:   16,013,942,784 bytes [16.0 GB]

Sector Size:     512 bytes logical/physical

Modification History

07/03/2025-article created