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Documenting Baselining & Troubleshooting
Halmstad University
Olga Torstensson
035-167575 [email protected]
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Documenting and Baselining the Network
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Baseline
To effectively troubleshoot a network, a baseline must first be established. The baseline information will be included in the network documentation
• network monitoring
• data collection
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Network Utilisation
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Station Statistics
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Devices of Interest
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Ports of Interest
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Duration of Baseline
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Bandwidth Utilisation
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Using the Baseline Data
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Topology Diagram Components
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Topology Example
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Discover Configuration
show version
show ip interfaces.
show ip interfaces brief.
show ip interface {interface-name} for each interface or enter show interfaces to see a list of all interfaces at once.
show ip protocols.
show spanning-tree or show spantree.
show cdp neighbors.
show cdp entry {device id}.
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Creating Network Documentation
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Components of Topology Diagram
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Components of Topology Diagram
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Troubleshooting
Methodologies & Tools
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Data Encapulation
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OSI v TCP/IP
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General Troubleshooting
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Selecting a Troubleshooting Approach
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Questions to Ask
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Troubleshooting Commands
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Gathering Symptoms from End User Hardware
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Router diagnostics
showshow show buffers, show interfaces, show controllersshow buffers, show interfaces, show controllers show memory, show processesshow memory, show processes
debugdebug Disabled with – ‘no debug all’ ‘undebug all’Disabled with – ‘no debug all’ ‘undebug all’ High processor overhead - use sparinglyHigh processor overhead - use sparingly Minimise impact –Minimise impact –
CPU awarenessCPU awareness show processes cpushow processes cpu
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Interacting with technical support
• show tech-support