[Xymon] Feature request - thresholds for CPU utilisation (not load average)

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Dec 7 22:50:39 CET 2011


On 07-12-2011 17:13, Bill Richardson wrote:
> I see that Buchan asked for this a few years back. Has anyone done this.
> I would like to start alerting on %CPU not LOAD. I would still like to
> graph LOAD and have that show up under trends. The % CPU is already in
> Trends being graphed it would be nice just to pull that over to the CPU
> column.

In 4.3.x, add this to your analysis.cfg:

HOST=foo
    DS cpu vmstat.rrd:cpu_idl >=25 COLOR=green TEXT="CPU load normal"
    DS cpu vmstat.rrd:cpu_idl <25  COLOR=yellow TEXT="High CPU load"
    DS cpu vmstat.rrd:cpu_idl <10  COLOR=red TEXT="Critical CPU load"


Regards,
Henrik



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