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memory check alert shows more than 100% on physical server

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:03 pm
by rnjie
Hey all, i just set up nagios xi and am monitoring over 500 vm's currently using snmp, everything seems to work fine except when i added my physical servers, i et critical alerts saying memory is above 90% and 135% being used, i check on the server and the total memory is 5T and the free memory is 3T, why is nagios reporting the stats above 100%, is there a special plugin i need for memory checks on physical servers? see memory stats below of which i am getting critical alerts for


total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 5.9T 2.5T 3.3T 1.4G 87G 3.4T
Swap: 15G 0B 15G

Re: memory check alert shows more than 100% on physical serv

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:14 pm
by npolovenko
Hello, @rnjie. Can you show me the exact snmp command you're using?
Can you also run it from the command line and show me the output?

Re: memory check alert shows more than 100% on physical serv

Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:09 am
by rnjie
thanks, i found out that snmp cannot read memory usage in Terabytes , i decided to use the agent NCPA, YOU CAN CLOSE THE CASE