Troubleshooting guide
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Chapter 4 Maintenance and Troubleshooting Overview
Troubleshooting Strategy Overview
Cisco SS7 Interface Diagnostic Commands
Cisco SS7 interfaces provide the following integrated Cisco IOS command types to assist you in
monitoring and troubleshooting systems:
• show
• debug
• ping
• trace
Show Commands
The show commands are powerful monitoring and troubleshooting tools. You can use the show
commands to perform several functions:
• Monitor router behavior during initial installation
• Monitor normal network operation
• Isolate problem interfaces, nodes, media, or applications
• Determine when a network is congested
• Determine the status of servers, clients, or other neighbors
Some of the most commonly used status commands include the following:
• show interfaces—Displays statistics for network interfaces using the following commands:
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show interfaces ethernet
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show interfaces fddi
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show interfaces atm
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show interfaces serial
• show controller t1—Displays statistics for T1 interface card controllers
• show running-config—Displays the router configuration currently running
• show startup-config—Displays the router configuration that is stored in nonvolatile RAM
(NVRAM)
• show flash—Displays the layout and contents of flash memory
• show buffers—Displays statistics for the buffer pools on the router
• show memory—Shows statistics about the router memory, including free pool statistics
• show processes—Displays information about the active processes on the router
• show stacks—Displays information about the stack utilization of processes and interrupt routines,
as well as the reason for the last system reboot
• show version—Displays the configuration of the system hardware, the software version, the names
and sources of configuration files, and the boot images
For details on using and interpreting the output of specific show commands, see the Cisco IOS command
reference for the release currently used.