Setup Guide

Example of Syslog message on CAM usage
Following table shows few possible scenarios during which the syslog message appear on re-conguring the CAM usage threshold value.
Consider if the last CAM threshold was set to 90 percent and now you re-congure the CAM threshold to 80. And, if the current CAM
usage is 85 percent, then the system displays the syslog message saying that the CAM usage is above the congured CAM threshold
value.
Table 13. Possible Scenarios of Syslog Warning
Old CAM Threshold New CAM Threshold Current CAM
Usage
Syslog
90 80 85
DellEMC(conf)#Nov 5
19:55:12 %S6000:0 %ACL_AGENT-4-
ACL_AGENT_CAM_USAGE_OVER_THE_THRESHOLD: The
Ipv4Acl cam region on stack-unit 0 Portpipe 0
Pipeline 0 is more than 80% Full.
90 95 91
DellEMC(conf)#Nov 5
19:55:12 %S6000:0 %ACL_AGENT-4-
ACL_AGENT_CAM_USAGE_BELOW_THE_THRESHOLD: The
cam-usage of Ipv4Acl cam region on stack-unit 0
Portpipe 0 Pipeline 0 is below 95%.
98 100 100 No syslog
95 80 10 No syslog
92 90 89 No syslog
CAM Optimization
When you enable the CAM optimization, if a Policy Map containing classication rules (ACL and/or DSCP/ ip-precedence rules) is applied
to more than one physical interface on the same port-pipe, only a single copy of the policy is written (only one FP entry is used). When you
disable this command, the system behaves as described in this chapter.
Troubleshoot CAM Proling
The following section describes CAM proling troubleshooting.
QoS CAM Region Limitation
To store QoS service policies, the default CAM prole allocates a partition within the IPv4Flow region.
If the QoS CAM space is exceeded, a message similar to the following displays.
If you exceed the QoS CAM space, follow these steps.
1 Verify that you have congured a CAM prole that allocates 24 K entries to the IPv4 system ow region.
2 Allocate more entries in the IPv4Flow region to QoS.
Dell EMC Networking OS supports the ability to view the actual CAM usage before applying a service-policy. The test cam-usage
service-policy command provides this test framework. For more information, refer to Pre-Calculating Available QoS CAM Space.
Content Addressable Memory (CAM)
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