IronPort - daily management guide - AsyncOS 7.6.1

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Managing and Monitoring via the CLI
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The Cisco IronPort appliance provides commands to allow you to monitor email operations without
analyzing logs. You can monitor the Cisco IronPort appliance either via the Command Line Interface
(CLI) or the Graphical User Interface (GUI). This chapter describes the monitoring and management
commands and how they are accessed via the CLI. Many of the components are also available from the
GUI. See Chapter 7, “Other Tasks in the GUI” for information on the GUI.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Reading the Available Components of Monitoring, page 6-1
Monitoring Via the CLI, page 6-6
Managing the Email Queue, page 6-24
SNMP Monitoring, page 6-39
Reading the Available Components of Monitoring
Three of the key components to system monitoring:
Counters
Gauges
Rates
Reading the Counters
Counters provide a running total of various events in the system. For each counter, you can view the total
number of events that have occurred since the counter was reset, since the last system reboot, and over
the system’s lifetime.
Counters increment each time an event occurs and are displayed in three versions:
Reset Since the last counter reset with the resetcounters command
Uptime Since the last system reboot
Lifetime Total through the lifetime of the Cisco IronPort appliance
Table 6-1 lists the available counters and their description when monitoring the Cisco IronPort
appliance.
Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 7.6 for Email Daily Management Guide
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