[hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

[vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au]

Hi Thomas

Thanks for your quick response.

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.
(I hate reinventing stuff)
Alternatively, I was hoping that Henrik has some magic switch or config 
setting that will make it work.

Regards
       Vernon


"Kern, Thomas" <Thomas.Kern at hq.doe.gov> wrote on 13/09/2007 11:46:07 AM:

> I don't know if you can alert off one of the values in one of the 
> trends graphs. That might take some back-end modifications.
> 
> But you could write a simple client-side script to do the same 
> command that is parsed for the trends graphs (vmstat, I think), 
> totaling the cpu utilization values and sending a simple status 
> message with the appropriate g/y/r color. The hobbit can do the alert.
> 
> 
> Thomas Kern
> 301-903-2211
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au 
<vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au>
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Sent: Wed Sep 12 23:36:07 2007
> 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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