See if Nagios provides a 'vmstat' display or graph. Hobbit displays load average by default (which is not all that useful IMHO), but also provides vmstat.
Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (866)569-7378 Cell: (414)491-6001 Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI ----- Original Message ----- From: James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:51 am Subject: How to translate Load Average to meaningful management numbers To: [email protected] > I just tossed up a Nagios monitoring thing for a bunch of SLES-10 > machines. Still very vanilla. One of the checks I have defined is > 'check_load' which > displays load data similarly to what is found in 'top'. > > Unfortunately, that means NOTHING to my boss, who likes to see %CPU > busy. What is the best explanation of load average I can give my boss. > > Also has anyone seen a decent check_cpu widget for Nagios? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
