[Xymon] CPU USAGE DISPLAY (CPU Statistics)

[Schwab, Jos]

Hello all,
          I apologize for wasting your time. When the environment variable CPULOOP=1 is set properly (with export), the CPULOOP=1 variable setting does have the intended effect of hiding the first top display on my CentOS 6.5 system. I need to get with my co-workers before trying this on either test or prod. Thanks for your assistance and time.



Jos Schwab
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From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 6:54 AM
To: Schwab, Jos
Cc: xymon at xymon.com; Mark Felder
Subject: Re: [Xymon] CPU USAGE DISPLAY (CPU Statistics)


From the "top" man page:

"There is a possible workaround if you define the CPULOOP=1 environment variable. The top command will be run one extra hidden loop for CPU data before standard output."

You could define this in the appropriate cfg file on each client.

J
On 30/07/2014 6:25 AM, "Schwab, Jos" <Jos.Schwab at newellco.com<mailto:Jos.Schwab at newellco.com>> wrote:
Mark,
        I failed to mention that in the man pages for TOP in CentOS 6.5, the –d command line option is called the interval which I had read somewhere is used to average statistics over. I hope that helps make it more clear and understandable.



Jos Schwab
Office – 815-233-8667
Mobile – 815-908-8587
SAP Technical Engineer
29 East Stephenson Street
Freeport, Il. 61032

jos.schwab at newellco.com<mailto:jos.schwab at newellco.com>



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From: Schwab, Jos
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:19 AM
To: 'Mark Felder'
Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: [Xymon] CPU USAGE DISPLAY (CPU Statistics)


        Sorry for the delay mark. I took off a couple of days.

        By interval I mean the time span that is used for the calculations in the cpu stats in the third line of TOP. The first display is calculated across the time since boot. The second 'interval' is the time calculated for those same cpu stats since the last iteration of the TOP display which is...well... it looks like 1 or 2 seconds. Thus that is what I mean by ‘interval’. Interval is whatever is the measured period of time over which any given TOP display’s cpu statistics are calculated. Xymon shows the first display of TOP which looks like the first screen shot below. Then from the same server virtually a few seconds later, I captured a second display of TOP. Notice the cpu statistics are very different even though the REAL condition of the server hadn’t changed at all. I would like to change xymon to display that second iteration of the TOP command.

        Let me know if you would like more clarification. Thanks! ☺

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Jos Schwab
Office – 815-233-8667
Mobile – 815-908-8587
SAP Technical Engineer
29 East Stephenson Street
Freeport, Il. 61032

jos.schwab at newellco.com<mailto:jos.schwab at newellco.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Felder [mailto:feld at feld.me]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 5:40 PM
To: Schwab, Jos
Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] CPU USAGE DISPLAY (CPU Statistics)


On Jul 23, 2014, at 10:51, Schwab, Jos <Jos.Schwab at newellco.com<mailto:Jos.Schwab at newellco.com>> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>           I am pretty new to the Linux world. Getting to the point quickly; xymon apparently uses the top display for the CPU display. When I see a CPU alert from xymon I’d like to see the current time interval’s CPU stats (The third line of top display - %us, %sy, %ni, etc) rather than the averages of those stats since the last reboot of the machine. This is an old ‘complaint’ in bugzilla which was closed in 2007 as ‘not a bug’. I couldn’t find any work-arounds or customizing tips out there to change the display in xymon. What changes can a person make to see the current time interval (any top display other than the first one) statistics for the cpu display in xymon? What about changes in the monitored OS? Any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks.
>

I think I know what you are asking for, but to be sure can you define what you mean by "current time interval" ?


Thanks!



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