[Xymon] How to calculate CPU Load Average

Matt Vander Werf matt1299 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 13:00:36 CET 2017


I use this script as well in my environment and it works very well!

(Thanks, Bill!!)

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Matt Vander Werf

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Bill <howe.bill at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you would like to auto calculate CPU load based on cores, there is a
> script posted to xymonton.org that can do that:
>
> https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:cpu-load-calc
>
> Yes, a little self promotion as I wrote it, but its working well in our
> environment and should do the trick for what you are trying to do.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 00:45 -0400, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd say that your warn and panic levels should be set to let
> you know when something abnormal is happening, rather than trying to
> calculate based on cores.  When you have a couple of weeks of cpu load data
> in the graphs, you should be able to see the load average your server
> normally runs at.  Set the warning level a bit above that so you get a
> warning if some process starts hammering the cpu.  That'll tell you
> something unexpected is starting.  Set the panic level somewhat higher.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:49 PM, venkat v <velpulavenkat6 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Team,
>
> 1)Please help me how to calculate cpu load average i need to configure
> alerts in xymon.
> 2)if i have 4 cores in server what is average load.
> 3)in xymon default values
>    LOOAD 5.0 10.0
> how to configured these values.
> NOTE : which values based on configured defaults values (LOOAD 5.0 10.0 )
> in xymon.
>
> Regards
> Venkat Yadav
>
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