SV: [xymon] Xymon reports excessive memory usage on 1 SLES 11 host

[Vernon Everett]

Not much point in doing memory monitoring on a Solaris sparse zone.
Might as well put a check in the client script to not collect memory info
for a sparse zone with capped memory.
See here for more info.
http://www.xymon.com/archive/2010/02/msg00213.html

Regards
     Vernon


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:

> Henrik,
>
> Thanks for the speedy answer.  I had seen this in fun in
> hobbitd/client/$clients.c.  You must enjoy porting that part of the project
> each time some OS makes a change :)
>
> Trivia:
> On Solaris 10 zones prtconf can get the installed "Memory size:"  But
> anything further (like prtdiag) will fail.
>
> System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  i86pc
> Memory size: 32768 Megabytes
> System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
>
> prtconf: devinfo facility not available
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Henrik Størner [henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:50 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: SV: [xymon] Xymon reports excessive memory usage on 1 SLES 11
> host
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:42:21 -0800, Tim McCloskey wrote:
>
> > What does the Solaris client use to get this data?  vmstat? (free is not
> > a native solaris tool).
>
> Each OS has their own way of reporting memory utilisation - it is
> completely non-standard, and the one part of the Xymon client that
> requires the most code for each new OS!
>
> Specifically for Solaris, Xymon uses prtconf to determine how
> much memory is installed, and vmstat to determine how much is
> being used. "swap -s" was used for determining how much swap was
> being used, but earlier today I committed an update so we will
> now use "swap -l" instead.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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