check_load output

[Rhobar]

Hello World!

I have a new question for you

I'm using this definition in localhost.cfg:

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define service{
        use                             local-service         ; Name of service template to use
        host_name                  localhost
        service_description      Current Load
	check_command	  check_local_load!5.0,4.0,3.0!10.0,6.0,4.0
        }

and this definition in commands.cfg:

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

this is the output:

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OK - load average: 0.21, 0.10, 0.05  

what does it mean?

what is the significance of those numbers?
is there another way to view the output?

[scottwilkerson]

This is the 1 minute, 5 minute, 15 minute load on the localhost (your XI server)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_%28computing%29

[Rhobar]

they are everage values calculated in the last minute, last five minutes and 15 last minutes (in this order), is right?

and there ins't another way to display these values, right?

these values ranging from 0 to 1?

[slansing]

That is how system load is typically shown in "TOP" within Linux systems, and is how the plugin is formatted to return the plain text check data. You could possibly modify the plugin or create a new one to return what you would like.

[abrist]

and there ins't another way to display these values, right?
these values ranging from 0 to 1?

Only for single-core systems, and it would be the same unit of measurement as load, and only if there was no wait. A load of "1.0" is one core and 100% percent utilization. Anything over implies that there was some wait involved. But if you had 4 cores, a load of "1.0" would imply that on average, all 4 cores are working at 25% of capacity with no wait. At load "4.0", the quad-core system will be at 100% utilization and anything over will imply that there was some wait.

You could look at plugins that may give you cpu usage percentage, as that would have a hard limit at 100%. I assume you want these numbers scaled differently for reporting/graphing?

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/ ... d-averages

[Rhobar]

ok, that's all I wanted to know
thanks all

You could look at plugins that may give you cpu usage percentage, as that would have a hard limit at 100%. I assume you want these numbers scaled differently for reporting/graphing?

I can use these numbers too, but I needed to know what they mean exacty

[slansing]

ok, that's all I wanted to know
thanks all

You could look at plugins that may give you cpu usage percentage, as that would have a hard limit at 100%. I assume you want these numbers scaled differently for reporting/graphing?

I can use these numbers too, but I needed to know what they mean exacty

Well, using a CPU specific check that has a percentage return would indicate the total used percentage at the time the check was ran, you could set this limit to say..50% and that would indicate that as a whole, your system's processor "all cores I should think" were operating at 50% of their maximum value at that time.

[Rhobar]

oooook

thanks all friends

[slansing]

Closing as resolved!