[hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Hezki Englander me2unix at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 10:59:15 CEST 2007


Hi,
I have the same need.

Is it possible at least to include the CPUU vmstat graph in the CPU column
page
just under the la graph ?


On 9/13/07, Sherman, Larry, GCM <Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com> wrote:
>
>  Vernon,  The attached 2 files are from: http://www.deadcat.net/
>
> I currently use the bb-top-3.2.sh, which some custom mods for my
> environment that you don't need, so I picked up a clean one for you.
>
> I also included a new (2003), perl based bb-top.pl that I noticed.  I am
> going to look at it, and migrate to it if it make sense.
>
> On the PC platform, we noticed that bbwin would not trigger as we had
> hopped on a multi core machine when a process would bury one core, but the
> other would be idle.  I'll dig up the details for the changes we made if
> you, or anyone else is interested.
>
>
> Larry
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au [mailto:
> vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:56 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts
>
>
> Hi Larry
>
> I am a little rusty with Hobbit :-(
> Any chance you can post the changes you made on your client and server
> configs?
> Did you define a new graph to go with this test?
>
> Regards
>      Vernon
>
>
> "Sherman, Larry, GCM" <Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com> wrote on 13/09/2007
> 11:47:16 AM:
>
> > I use the bb-top.sh extension from deadcat.net to do this on Sun
> > Solaris, and we modified the src code for bbwin to do it on the PC.
> > Very doable.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au [mailto:vernon.
> > everett at westernpower.com.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:36 PM
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts
>
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm baaaack :-)
> > For those who might have missed me, I spent a few months contracting
> > for a company that standardised on BMC Patrol. Wouldn't even look at
> Hobbit.
> > BMC is a horrible package, expensive, not very extensible, with a
> > huge client footprint and overhead, and is very prone to crashing.
> > Sad product.
> >
> > But no matter, I am now trying to satisfy my new company that Hobbit
> > is the one monitor to rule them all, and my new colleagues have
> > identified a "deficiency".
> >
> > This has probably been asked and answered before, but here is what they
> want.
> > I have been asked to generate a yellow/red status when absolute CPU
> > utilisation reaches predetermined thresholds.
> > Yes, I know, without looking at the run-queue this figure is not
> > very meaningful, but this is what they want.
> >
> > The la1 graph in the trends column does an excellent job of graphing
> > the CPU utilisation, but how do I configure an alert based on that
> figure?
> >
> > Regards
> >        Vernon
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> >
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