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<p class="MsoNormal">I receive RED on MEM column, after just getting a “NEW-ancient” client HP-UX server loaded into xymon:
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I also as noted below>> <i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> have the threshold set to 101
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<p class="MsoNormal"> >Like so: MEMPHYS 100 101 in file = analysis.cfg (and xymon still shows RED)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I : A. Make it green or B. Just make it vanish.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks- <a href="mailto:Rick.Hershman@Centurylink.com">
Rick.Hershman@Centurylink.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This fellow below: (<b>Galen Johnson</b> <a href="mailto:xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Bhobbit%5D%20Out%20of%20range%20memory%20report&In-Reply-To=%3C44D1F913.9090706%40trantor.org%3E" title="[hobbit] Out of range memory report">
gjohnson at trantor.org </a>) says: <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
I've usually just gone in and tweaked the scripts when that would happen. How can I “go in and tweaked the scripts” ?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">How can I make the MEM no longer report RED via > tweaked the scripts ? how exactly does this get done ? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or any other way to make the memory column on Xymon GUI from RED be GREEN ? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PROBLEM I encounter: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="735" height="65" style="width:7.6562in;height:.677in" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image003.png@01D45BDF.8292F250"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Thu Oct 4 17:26:07 GMT 2018 - Memory CRITICAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Memory Used Total Percentage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><img border="0" width="16" height="16" style="width:.1666in;height:.1666in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.gif@01D45BDC.98F71790" alt="red"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
Physical 18446744073709537464M 2040M18446744073709550923%<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="16" height="16" style="width:.1666in;height:.1666in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.gif@01D45BDC.98F71790" alt="green"> Swap 52468M 65245M 80%<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Xymon forum encountered this in the past: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-August/008347.html">http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-August/008347.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Colin Spargo wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> I got this in the "memory" column for a Solaris 8 host this morning, which
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> caused it to go red (even though i have the threshold set to 101).<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> Thu Aug 3 09:11:17 BST 2006 - Memory CRITICAL<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> Memory Used Total Percentage<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> red Physical 4294955003M 131072M 4294967287%<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> green Swap 40973M 144024M 28%<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><i> That physical memory calculation is obviously incorrect!<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">It sounds to me like vmstat is reporting the total memory as "real +
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">disk"...which I believe is what the 4th column shows (I don't have a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">solaris server where I'm currently at to confirm). So, while hobbit
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">keys on the physical (real) memory to determine the memory, it's keying
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">on a computed value to do the differential. I've seen this under HPUX
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">and linux on occasion for the memory tests for BB.
<b>I've usually just <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">gone in and tweaked the scripts when that would happen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">=G=<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Rick.Hershman@Centurylink.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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