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September 25, 2006
It's Even Better: Cisco's Output Interpreter
A Cisco tech support email I received last week mentioned the ol' Cisco Output Interpreter utility on their website. This utility analyzes the output of various show / debug commands to decrypt their meaning and point out configuration or hardware errors on your router. I remember trying out the Output Interpreter a few years back and not being very impressed, but thought I'd give it a shot today.
I ran a "show tech-support" command on one of my routers and pasted it into the Cisco Output Interpreter...WOW! Has this utility improved. Not only did it mention that I was getting many buffer drops, but also had multiple security improvement recommendations (which I'll be implementing later today). The best part about it was this:
It actually took the entire "show run" output and hyperlinked every command. This way, if there's ever a command I was unsure about, I could click it and get a detailed description of what the command does. I'll be stealing that output and emailing it to a few of my customers to save me the time to train them on their own router. Nice!
Anyhow, the Cisco Output Interpreter requires a CCO login and is available here: https://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/OutputInterpreter/home.pl?locale=en
Posted by JC at September 25, 2006 9:44 AM
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