Smart CPU monitor for Unix?

[Scott Frost]

Matt,
I'd suggest you take a look at a product called Netuitive
(www.netuitive.com).  What your asking for gets very complex and hard to do
properly.  I've used Netuitive for two years and am very pleased.
Thx,

Scott Frost



On 6/27/05 9:32 AM, "Matt Luettgen" <mluettgen at nuvio.com> wrote:

> It might not be a nagios plugin...but there is the 'sar' command that comes in
> the sysstat package (see http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard ) that can
> provide historical data on cpu/memory/io/etc usage.  Granted I don't have a
> script currently to be incorporated into nagios, but it shouldnt be that
> difficult to hack up.  I believe this package can be used on a Unix system,
> but as I run strictly linux I cant be for sure.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt Luettgen
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:23:17 -0500
> "Matt Millard" <millard.matt at principal.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for some sort of smart CPU monitor.  I'd like to have
>> something that does a baseline of the server CPU utilization for a
>> given time period (at least a months worth of data).  Then compare the
>> current CPU utilization to that if it is a specified amount differing
>> notify.  So say for example that every night for 1 hour I run a system
>> backup that pegs the CPU at 100% (this is at different times for our
>> servers), or it could be some month end processing job, or an end of
>> the week processing job.  I want the monitor to be smart enough to not
>> send an alert because this is normal system activities.  And obviously
>> it has to hit this threshold a determined amount of times before it
>> sends the alert.
>> 
>> What are other people doing for CPU monitoring on Unix systems?  Does
>> this approach seam reasonable? Sometimes it's OK for it to be utilized,
>> I just want to know when it's acting odd.  I don't currently do any SNMP
>> monitoring, but it is in the plans for the future.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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