Thanks Jelle, The article cleared a lot of misunderstanding that i had about the check_load plugin. Now i understood the difference between load and % usage. Thanks for giving this insight.
I was actually looking for a plugin that can give me the %CPU used , Do we have one with the default installation of the nagios plugins. Please let me know about it. Thanks Jatin Jelle Smet wrote: >> My question is: How does the plugin claculate the 1 min avg load , 5 min >> avg load and 15 min avg load. >> > > Hi Jatin, > The Nagios plugins doesn't calculate anything, it just read the load averages > produced by the Linux/*nix OS itself. > Have a look at this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001?page=0,0 > > If you execute following commands on the command line of your linux box you'll > see the numbers originate from your os itself: > > #top > #w > #cat /proc/loadavg > #uptime > ... most likely a couple more > > The only thing the load plugin does is evaluating the threshold you defined to > the value returned by your OS. > > Hope it helps > > Jelle > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
