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Hi, I'm trying to monitor my Swap usage only, but when using NCPA memory/swap "check_xi_ncpa!-t 'token' -P 5693 -M memory/swap -u Gi -w 50 -c 80"
I'm getting the memory + swap total usage and not swap usage only.
How can I fix that so it will check swap usage only?

Thanks

What is the operating system that you are currently monitoring memory on? I tested the check against CentOS 6 machine, and it seems accurate.

On the client (remote box) On the Nagios XI server Are you seeing some inconsistencies when you run your check?

lmiltchev wrote:What is the operating system that you are currently monitoring memory on? I tested the check against CentOS 6 machine, and it seems accurate.

On the client (remote box)

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free -h
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7.8G       1.7G       6.1G       492K       181M       842M
-/+ buffers/cache:       766M       7.1G
Swap:         2.0G         0B       2.0G

On the Nagios XI server

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./check_ncpa.py -H x.x.x.x -t mytoken' -M 'memory/swap' -w 50 -c 80 -u Gi
OK: Used swap was 0.00 % (Total: 2.00 GiB, Used: 0.00 GiB, Free: 2.00 GiB) | 'total'=2.00GiB;1;2; 'used'=0.00GiB;1;2; 'free'=2.00GiB;1;2;

Are you seeing some inconsistencies when you run your check?

Hi, I'm monitoring windows servers. Actually I monitor linux servers with the same command and they are fine.
So only the windows servers are not accurate with this command.

NCPA uses values, obtained from psutls. There are probably differences on how the swap memory is calculated on Windows vs Linux machines. Here's the psutil documentation on memory checks:

https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#memory