Re: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

["Kern, Thomas" <Thomas.Kern (at) hq.doe.gov>]

I don't know if you can alert off one of the values in one of the trends graphs. That might take some back-end modifications. 

But you could write a simple client-side script to do the same command that is parsed for the trends graphs (vmstat, I think), totaling the cpu utilization values and sending a simple status message with the appropriate g/y/r color. The hobbit can do the alert. 


Thomas Kern
301-903-2211
 

----- Original Message -----
From: vernon.everett (at) westernpower.com.au <vernon.everett (at) westernpower.com.au>
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
Sent: Wed Sep 12 23:36:07 2007
Subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts


Hi all 

I'm baaaack :-) 
For those who might have missed me, I spent a few months contracting for a company that standardised on BMC Patrol. Wouldn't even look at Hobbit. 
BMC is a horrible package, expensive, not very extensible, with a huge client footprint and overhead, and is very prone to crashing. 
Sad product. 

But no matter, I am now trying to satisfy my new company that Hobbit is the one monitor to rule them all, and my new colleagues have identified a "deficiency". 

This has probably been asked and answered before, but here is what they want. 
I have been asked to generate a yellow/red status when absolute CPU utilisation reaches predetermined thresholds. 
Yes, I know, without looking at the run-queue this figure is not very meaningful, but this is what they want. 

The la1 graph in the trends column does an excellent job of graphing the CPU utilisation, but how do I configure an alert based on that figure? 

Regards 
       Vernon 







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