reading load status

[Andreas Ericsson]

Bit Takeshi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> How we read "load average" in load Load Service? I got
> noticed( see below) but don't know what "soft" and "hard"
> mean.

SOFT means nagios still hasn't checked the service max_check_attempts 
times. HARD is the exact opposite. When nagios hits a HARD state change, 
it sends a notification.

> I just think "0.04, 0.39, 0.27" is not-that-bad
> load.
> 

True, but it warned for 1min average being over 1. You most likely need 
to adjust your threshold values for these checks. More suitable would be 
5,3,2 for warning, and 8,4,3 for critical (or something like that).

> Please give me some advices.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> #########################################
> 02-24-2005 03:07:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	OK	SOFT	OK -
> load average: 0.44, 0.58, 0.28
> 02-24-2005 03:07:00	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
> WARNING - load average: 1.12, 0.71, 0.30
> 02-24-2005 03:05:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
> WARNING - load average: 1.18, 0.62, 0.24
> 02-23-2005 03:10:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	OK	HARD	OK -
> load average: 0.04, 0.39, 0.27
> 02-23-2005 03:05:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	HARD
> WARNING - load average: 1.29, 0.67, 0.26
> 02-23-2005 03:04:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
> WARNING - load average: 1.15, 0.52, 0.19
> 02-23-2005 03:03:50	Service Alert	linux1	LOAD	WARNING	SOFT
> WARNING - load average: 1.02, 0.36, 0.13
> ###########################
> 
> My system:
> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
> Nagios 2.0b2
> Mem:  1054822400 1037209600 17612800        0 179134464
> 700030976
> Swap: 2089209856 108093440 1981116416
> MemTotal:      1030100 kB
> CPU: (Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz)x4.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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