A person's efficiency is greatly enhanced if he has the right tools. We have covered some NMS tools earlier, including SNMP, syslogs, and netflow. In this section, we will describe the commands that are used for network troubleshooting.
Network troubleshooting commands
IOS commands
Cisco IOS provides a variety of commands for monitoring and troubleshooting a network. The commands are clubbed together as the show commands. These commands are used to view the various parameters on the devices such as the configuration, interfaces, VLANs, IP addresses, protocols, and routing tables. We will discuss the specific show commands in the next section.
The show command output can be very long and certain keywords are used within...