When you use the 'top' command on a stack, which CPU is it showing you?

[Stanley_Riley_J]

We have a 5 switch stack of x460-48p. Our monitoring software, Solarwinds, is alerting us to high CPU usage very frequently and intermittently on this switch stack. However, when I use the 'top' command, I don't see CPU usage as high as what is being reported.

What CPU information is being shown when I run the 'top' command on the master of the stack?

What are some possibilities for the high CPU being reported?

Thanks,
Stan

[Stanley_Riley_J]

ours apparently doesn't do that...

Is there anything specific that I need to configure for us to be able to monitor that?

[Nikunj_Tonthana]

Running the 'top' command just displays the CPU utilization of the node it is being run on. Not the entire stack.
I'm not sure how SolarWinds is getting CPU usage information for the switch or stack.