check_load question

[Tedman Eng]

check_load is a local system plugin.  It does not query load average or
anything else over your network.  What you are doing is checking your nagios
server's load avg 7x.

To add remote monitoring capabilities to local system plugins, wrap the
plugin in check_by_ssh, nrpe, or nsca.
The plugin will then execute locally on the remote machine, but the results
will be sent by network to your nagios server.  Another method is using snmp
on the target devices.

NRPE (pull) and NSCA (push) are both downloadable from the main nagios site.


Before asking about automating ssh logins, please read the archives.  That
one has been answered many many many times.





-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Williams [mailto:jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:58 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_load question


Hello everyone.

I am using Nagios on a Fedora Core 2 box. It is currently monitoring about 
7 servers, with a variety of the option to check.
Im still learning Nagios, but one thing that I find puzzling is when I am 
attempting to use the check_load plugin.

Right now, I have check_load setup to monitor two of my mail servers, and 
one apache server.

What is odd is that it never seems to update the load average consistently. 
Most of the time, it just shows 0.00  0.00  0.00
Then every once and awhile, it will show a load average, althought not 
right now, it does show something besides all zeros.

Anyway, so I have been trying to figure out what exactly is going on here 
and seeing if I missed something.

Here is what I have setup on my checkcommands.cgi:

# 'check_load' command definition
define command{
         command_name    check_load
         command_line    $USER1$/check_load -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
         }

And here is the entry in my services.cfg:

# Service definition
define service{
         use                             generic-service         ; Name of 
service template to use

         host_name                       oxygen, corpmail, Mail-Gateway
         service_description             Load-AVG
         is_volatile                     0
         check_period                    24x7
         max_check_attempts              3
         normal_check_interval           5
         retry_check_interval            1
         contact_groups                  UNIX-admins
         notification_interval           120
         notification_period             24x7
         notification_options            w,u,c,r
         check_command                   check_load!1!2
         }

Like I said, still getting used to it and getting my feet wet. But thought 
i'd ask here for some pointers and any errors I may have setup in my
configs.

I appreciate it.

Jason



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