Measures reported by FPProcessCPUTest

CPU contentions on the components can significantly degrade the performance of the that component. To avoid this, administrators must track the CPU usage of each component over time, proactively detect potential CPU contentions, and accurately isolate what is causing excessive CPU usage on each component - system processes? or user processes? or being idle? This can be achieved using the CPU Usage test.

This test monitors the usage of the each CPU of the target Cisco Firepower appliance and alerts administrators to erratic usage patterns on the component and what is causing them. This way, the test helps administrators isolate and preempt CPU contentions on the component, and thus improve the performance of the device.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for each CPU in the target Cisco Firepower device that is being monitored.

Descriptor: CPU

The measures made by this test are as follows: