I use the bb-top.sh extension from deadcat.net to do this on Sun Solaris, and we modified the src code for bbwin to do it on the PC. Very doable.

-----Original Message-----
From: vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au

[mailto:vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:36 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Hi all 

I'm baaaack :-) 
For those who might have missed me, I spent a few months

contracting for a company that standardised on BMC Patrol. Wouldn't even look at Hobbit. BMC is a horrible package, expensive, not very extensible, with a huge client footprint and overhead, and is very prone to crashing. Sad product.

But no matter, I am now trying to satisfy my new company that

Hobbit is the one monitor to rule them all, and my new colleagues have identified a "deficiency".

This has probably been asked and answered before, but here is

what they want. I have been asked to generate a yellow/red status when absolute CPU utilisation reaches predetermined thresholds. Yes, I know, without looking at the run-queue this figure is not very meaningful, but this is what they want.

The la1 graph in the trends column does an excellent job of

graphing the CPU utilisation, but how do I configure an alert based on that figure?

Regards 
       Vernon 

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