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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I would prefer that the cpu test be the data from the vmstat command instead of the load values. I am used to a mainframe system and cpu utilization is more useful that queue length. All of my Linux systems are guests on a mainframe system so their individual cpu utilizations is not as important as the values from my first level system and I am working on a client side test for that.<BR>
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Thomas Kern<BR>
301-903-2211<BR>
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----- Original Message -----<BR>
From: vernon.everett@westernpower.com.au <vernon.everett@westernpower.com.au><BR>
To: hobbit@hswn.dk <hobbit@hswn.dk><BR>
Sent: Wed Sep 12 23:56:43 2007<BR>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts<BR>
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Hi Thomas<BR>
<BR>
Thanks for your quick response.<BR>
<BR>
A client side script would work, but I was thinking I cannot be the first person to need this, and that somebody else has already invented the wheel.<BR>
(I hate reinventing stuff)<BR>
Alternatively, I was hoping that Henrik has some magic switch or config setting that will make it work.<BR>
<BR>
Regards<BR>
Vernon<BR>
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"Kern, Thomas" <Thomas.Kern@hq.doe.gov> wrote on 13/09/2007 11:46:07 AM:<BR>
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> I don't know if you can alert off one of the values in one of the<BR>
> trends graphs. That might take some back-end modifications.<BR>
><BR>
> But you could write a simple client-side script to do the same<BR>
> command that is parsed for the trends graphs (vmstat, I think),<BR>
> totaling the cpu utilization values and sending a simple status<BR>
> message with the appropriate g/y/r color. The hobbit can do the alert.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> Thomas Kern<BR>
> 301-903-2211<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> ----- Original Message -----<BR>
> From: vernon.everett@westernpower.com.au <vernon.everett@westernpower.com.au><BR>
> To: hobbit@hswn.dk <hobbit@hswn.dk><BR>
> Sent: Wed Sep 12 23:36:07 2007<BR>
> Subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> Hi all<BR>
><BR>
> I'm baaaack :-)<BR>
> For those who might have missed me, I spent a few months contracting<BR>
> for a company that standardised on BMC Patrol. Wouldn't even look at Hobbit.<BR>
> BMC is a horrible package, expensive, not very extensible, with a<BR>
> huge client footprint and overhead, and is very prone to crashing.<BR>
> Sad product.<BR>
><BR>
> But no matter, I am now trying to satisfy my new company that Hobbit<BR>
> is the one monitor to rule them all, and my new colleagues have<BR>
> identified a "deficiency".<BR>
><BR>
> This has probably been asked and answered before, but here is what they want.<BR>
> I have been asked to generate a yellow/red status when absolute CPU<BR>
> utilisation reaches predetermined thresholds.<BR>
> Yes, I know, without looking at the run-queue this figure is not<BR>
> very meaningful, but this is what they want.<BR>
><BR>
> The la1 graph in the trends column does an excellent job of graphing<BR>
> the CPU utilisation, but how do I configure an alert based on that figure?<BR>
><BR>
> Regards<BR>
> Vernon<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
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