[Xymon] Intelligent CPU Load Settings

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Sat, May 28, 2016 2:11 pm, Bill wrote:
> Xymon'ers,
>
> Is there any planned functionality to be able to dynamically set a xymon
> client's LOAD alert settings based upon how many processors it has?
>
> The current static defaults are not too helpful, and hand editing an
> entry in /etc/xymon/analysis/*.cfg for every server just shouldn't have
> to be done.
>
> _*Ideally*_
> It would be best if along with the "top" view that is reported by
> clients, they also reported their CPU count (either with "nproc" or
> "grep -c proc /proc/cpuinfo")
>
> Then the CPU count could be shown on client's "cpu" service page. <=
> Critical information when determining if load is a problem or not.
>
> Since the count would then be reported to and available on the xymon
> server, it could then be possible to set warnings and criticals based
> off of CPU count. (IE Warn at a load number equal to CPU count, Critical
> at a number equal to CPU count x 1.5)
>


Hi Bill,

It's definitely planned, but not quite in there yet. It'll likely need to
be an additional (distinct) RRD file with a separate set of (normalized)
thresholds.

The collection of number of processes for some OS's went in in
https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7707


HTH,
-jc