[Xymon] CPU Load vs Utilization

[Henrik Størner]

Den 22-02-2011 01:46, TJ Yang skrev:
> Recently a concern was raised by my Xymon user.
>
> On Xymon Unix machine's (R3) CPU column is showing CPU load number (0 to 20+).
> On Windows machine(R2) using bbwin CPU column is showing CPU
> Utilization number in percentage(0%-100%).
>
> Shouldn't we  distinguish Unix CPU and Windows CPU columns ?
> Since they are using two different metric.
I agree it can be a bit confusing - it's down to the historical heritage 
of the way Big Brother worked.

It will change, but to do so requires some code changes. And probably 
some standardization of the way performance metris (vmstat for unix, cpu 
data for WIndows) is kept in the RRD-files.


Regards,
Henrik