Step 1: Display Routing Engine Status

Action

To determine which Routing Engine you are logged in to, use the following CLI command:

user@host> show chassis routing-engine

Sample Output

user@host> show chassis routing-engine

Routing Engine status:

  Slot 0:

    Current state                  Master

    Election priority              Master (default)

    Temperature                 29 degrees C / 84 degrees F

    DRAM                      2048 MB

    Memory utilization          11 percent

    CPU utilization:

      User                       0 percent

      Background                 0 percent

      Kernel                     2 percent

      Interrupt                  0 percent

      Idle                      98 percent

    Model                          RE-3.0

    Serial ID                      P10865701859

    Start time                     2004-04-15 18:45:12 UTC

    Uptime                        6 days, 3 hours, 56 minutes, 8 seconds

Routing Engine status:

  Slot 1:

    Current state                  Backup

    Election priority              Backup (default)

    Temperature                 26 degrees C / 78 degrees F

    DRAM                      2048 MB

    Memory utilization          10 percent

    CPU utilization:

[...Output truncated...]

What It Means

The output from the show chassis hardware command indicates that you are logged in to the master Routing Engine because this command can only be used on the master Routing Engine.

If you are not logged in to the master Routing Engine, you will see the following command output:

user@host> show chassis hardware

error: Aborted! This command can only be used on the master routing engine.