Description

The customer is looking for explanation of remote monitoring messages received on an Spectrum device informing the Juniper device is crossing the threshold of 50:

 

Mon 15 Jan, 2024 - 02:41:15 - RMON falling threshold trap received from model <host> of type JuniperJUNOSRtr. AlarmIndex 32770, AlarmVariable 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.1.13.1.8.9.1.0.0, AlarmSampleType 1, AlarmValue 5 and AlarmFallingThreshold 50. (event [0x00010811])

 

 

Symptoms

The alarm indicates an increase of the CPU, but the CPU is normal on the Juniper device, there are no relevant CPU messages observed, no swap memory was in use, but noticed the CPU increased on the last 15 min utilization when the RSI was taken and returned to normal right after

Solution

Informed the customer the messages observed are informational, the CPU may spike under different circumstances such as routing updates, when running some CLI commands and so on, however the router was not under CPU pressure

 

Modification History

2024-01-30 : Article Created