major-event (System)
Syntax
major-event {
threshold swap-usage value ;
action [snmp-trap | live-vmcore];
}
Hierarchy Level
[edit system monitor memory system]
Description
Indicates an event that, if left unchecked, may result in significant loss of service or interruption of traffic. At the system level you can monitor the overall free pages (cache and free pages), kernel memory allocations and compare them with threshold values. You can also monitor the swap usage and specify the threshold for swap space usage. Most devices have a swap partition that you can configure to provide additional transient memory. Ideally, the swap partition is used only under exceptional circumstances. In current dynamic systems, you can sporadically use the swap partition as long as the usage is not high or persistent. For instance, you could categorise a major event as one where the swap usage is greater than 50%. If the threshold value is crossed, then you can raise an SNMP trap or display a list of system core files created when the system failed which can be used to debug the issue.
You can only configure swap usage threshold for memory monitoring. If you do not configure the swap usage threshold, memory monitoring for swap usage is based on the default threshold. Memory monitoring for other features is based on the default threshold.
Options
| threshold | Specifies the process threshold level for a major event. You must specify the process name and the memory limit for the process. |
| swap-usage | Specifies the swap usage in percentage. |
| action | Specifies the action to be performed when the threshold is crossed. You can either |
Required Privilege Level
system—To view this statement in the configuration.
system-control—To add this statement to the configuration.
Release Information
Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 20.1.