Cisco IOS Troubleshooting Tip

I always love hearing about little IOS tips and tricks that are quick, easy, and provide lots of useful information. One that I use occasionally when I'm on a new Cisco IOS device is the command "show tech-support | include show".

What this gives you is all the 'show' commands generated when the command 'show tech-support' is executed. Pretty useful to see what commands Cisco TAC deem essential for troubleshooting, without having to scroll through hundreds of pages of output from 'show tech-support' command.

Here's what commands are executed on a Cisco 3850 running IOS-XE 03.03.03SE with IP Services license:

C3850#sh tech-support     | in show
------------------ show clock ------------------
------------------ show version ------------------
------------------ show running-config ------------------
service timestamps debug datetime msec localtime show-timezone
service timestamps log datetime msec localtime show-timezone
------------------ show stacks ------------------
------------------ show interfaces ------------------
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
<..snip..>
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
------------------ show interfaces history ------------------
------------------ show controllers ------------------
------------------ show user ------------------
------------------ show logging ------------------
------------------ show env all ------------------
------------------ show interfaces status ------------------
------------------ show interfaces status err-disabled ------------------
------------------ show interfaces switchport ------------------
------------------ show interfaces trunk ------------------
------------------ show vlan ------------------
------------------ show spanning-tree ------------------
------------------ show etherchannel summary ------------------
------------------ show cef linecard ------------------
------------------ show data-corruption ------------------
------------------ show memory statistics ------------------
------------------ show process memory ------------------
------------------ show process cpu ------------------
------------------ show process cpu history ------------------
------------------ show switch detail ------------------
------------------ show platform oir states ------------------
------------------ show platform ses states ------------------
------------------ show license right-to-use summary ------------------
------------------ show license right-to-use ------------------
------------------ show license right-to-use usage ------------------
------------------ show license right-to-use default ------------------
------------------ show license right-to-use detail ------------------
------------------ show version running ------------------
------------------ show processes cpu detailed ------------------
------------------ show processes ------------------
------------------ show redundancy history ------------------
------------------ show redundancy states ------------------
------------------ show redundancy switchover history ------------------
------------------ show ipc nodes ------------------
------------------ show ipc ports ------------------
------------------ show ipc queue ------------------
------------------ show ipc status ------------------
------------------ show pds buffergroup all ------------------
------------------ show pds buffers ------------------
------------------ show pds client all ------------------
------------------ show pds memory ------------------
------------------ show pds statistics ------------------
------------------ show pds tag all ------------------
------------------ show stack-power ------------------
------------------ show ip nbar version ------------------
      Iv:                         showmypc - 1
14  netshow                          Mv: 3
      Iv:                         showmypc - 1
210  showmypc                         Mv: 1
------------------ show crypto key mypubkey rsa ------------------
------------------ show buffers ------------------
------------------ show inventory ------------------
------------------ show region ------------------

The CCIE R/S Lab

Well I've been busy studying for the CCIE R/S lab for the past 6 months (off and on with work duties); also meaning I haven't been posting here as much as I'd liked to.

I reattempted on May 8th to sneak it in before the v4 to v5 change on June 4th, but unfortunately it was another failure. I had my first attempt fall of 2011, but was never able to reattempt quickly due to some major work projects I had taken on. However, this attempt I was very close to passing; after some post-lab reflection, I believe my primary downfall was time management. It can be easy to forget during the lab that they're designed to be very difficult to complete 100% in the allotted time. It forces the testee to solve the entire lab as a whole, but skip questions that don't affect the core route/switch configs, if time becomes an issue, which it does due to documentation referencing or tracking down issues from misconfigs (or whatever else comes up).

I had wanted to attend a bootcamp class before this last attempt, but the timing just didn't work out for various reasons. But now I'm more determined than ever to get my #, so off to an INE bootcamp this mid-June in Seattle! I have some work to do to get caught up on the new v5 topics, but its a relief that many of the legacy technologies have been removed or moved to the written exam only. Hopefully this bootcamp will be the final push over the edge to victory!

Some v4->v5 transition material from the great folks at INE:

• INE Live Blog of the RSv5 updates from Cisco Live 2014:http://blog.ine.com/2014/05/18/ccie-rsv5-techtorial-cisco-live-2014-clus/
• INE Expanded RSv5 Blueprint: http://blog.ine.com/2014/04/17/ines-ccie-rsv5-expanded-blueprint/