Help with CPU Check Thresholds

[Scott Wilkerson]

Alex,

It would be very common for a machine with multiple CPU's to have a 
higher load.  On a 16 CPU machine, no processes would be waiting at all 
with a load under 16.

Scott Wilkerson
Technical Support Specialist
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On 4/1/2013 2:17 AM, Alex Trifonov wrote:
> Wow! What kind of hardware and type of load you have on it?
> I'm not sure, but it seems to me, that you misunderstood the Load
> Average value. I haven't seen ever a system whith Load Average in
> normal situation more, than 5-7.
>
> P.S.: Sorry for my poor English.
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:33:41 -0300
> Net Warrior <netwarrior863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I changed the values to 30,25,20!50,45,40
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 2013/3/26 Edwin Zoeller <Edwin.Zoeller at ama-assn.org>:
>>> -w 15,10,5  -c 30,20,10
>>>
>>> This works well for me
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: C. Bensend [mailto:benny at bennyvision.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:54 AM
>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Help with CPU Check Thresholds
>>>
>>>
>>>> This is how I configured the service, my aim is to get an alert
>>>> when the CPU load  ( uptime ) reaches 10% and a critical when
>>>> there is a 20%
>>>>
>>>> check_command
>>>> check_nrpe!check_load!10,4,3!20,15,10
>>>> flap_detection_enabled          0 notifications_enabled           1
>>>>          notification_options            w,u,r,c
>>>>          notification_period             24x7
>>>>          check_period                    24x7
>>>>          check_interval                  1
>>>>          max_check_attempts              2
>>>>          first_notification_delay        0
>>>>          notification_interval           1
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> The problems is that I get WARN when the load is less than that:
>>>> WARNING - load average: 1.77, 1.94, 3.04 WARNING - load average:
>>>> 2.11, 2.23, 3.45 WARNING - load average: 1.90, 3.59, 4.34 WARNING
>>>> - load average: 5.65, 5.05, 4.86
>>> You configured it to warn when the 15-minute average is 3.00, and
>>> in your above four examples, the 15-minute averages are all > 3.00.
>>> It is working like you configured it to.
>>>
>>> The plugin's output is 1-minute, 5-minute, and 15-minute average.
>>>
>>> Benny
>


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