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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi
all, we manage several hundred hosts, and we’ve noticed when
doing maintenance that requires shutdown/reboot that
occasionally (seldom) on restart one or more of the memory
modules in a given host isn’t detected. Sometimes it
requires reseating the memory, sometimes just a reboot,
sometimes the memory is bad. Thus we have a need to write a
script that will check the amount of memory each host sees,
and send an email/alert if its below a given amount.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">So I
thought why not make use of xymon and the memory test you
get for free. A large percentage of our hosts >60% have
exactly 6 GB of memory, but a large percentage does not. So
I was wondering if there is a way to make use of the
hobbit-clients.cfg script where I could set alert thresholds
for a new external script.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The MEMORY thresholds are percentage only rather than absolute
amounts.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The
default value for any host would be alert if less than 6.0
GB of memory is detected, but I could set custom alerts for
given hosts that have more or less than this amount.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I
don’t believe its possible to use hobbit-client.cfg file in
this way, but wanted to check with the list and hope I’m
wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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You could easily do this by checking the incoming client reports
using check-client:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:check-client">http://xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:check-client</a><br>
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The memCheck in that test was written for incorrectly configured ESX
service consoles by checking the [free] section. Easily enough
modified to check [memory] section's "phys" line.<br>
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David.<br>
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Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
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