[Xymon] Intelligent CPU Load Settings

[Bill]

JC,

Awesome, glad its on its way!

Is the nproc collection currently available in a xymon variable?

That way, it can be worked around with a server side cron for now.

Thank you,

Bill Howe
howe.bill at gmail.com

On 05/30/2016 01:42 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
>
> 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
>