CPU utilisation alerts

vernon.everett＠westernpower.com.au

13 Sep 2007 13 Sep '07

3:36 a.m.

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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Larry.Sherman＠rbsgc.com

13 Sep 13 Sep

3:47 a.m.

New subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

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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vernon.everett＠westernpower.com.au

5:56 a.m.

New subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Hi Larry

I am a little rusty with Hobbit :-( Any chance you can post the changes you made on your client and server configs? Did you define a new graph to go with this test?

Regards Vernon

"Sherman, Larry, GCM" <Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com> wrote on 13/09/2007 11:47:16 AM:

...

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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Larry.Sherman＠rbsgc.com

12:03 p.m.

New subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Vernon, The attached 2 files are from: http://www.deadcat.net/

I currently use the bb-top-3.2.sh, which some custom mods for my environment that you don't need, so I picked up a clean one for you.

I also included a new (2003), perl based bb-top.pl that I noticed. I am going to look at it, and migrate to it if it make sense.

On the PC platform, we noticed that bbwin would not trigger as we had hopped on a multi core machine when a process would bury one core, but the other would be idle. I'll dig up the details for the changes we made if you, or anyone else is interested.

Larry

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

[mailto:vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:56 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Hi Larry 

I am a little rusty with Hobbit :-( 
Any chance you can post the changes you made on your client and

server configs? Did you define a new graph to go with this test?

Regards 
     Vernon 


"Sherman, Larry, GCM" &lt;Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com> wrote on

13/09/2007 11:47:16 AM:

> 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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me2unix＠gmail.com

20 Sep 20 Sep

8:59 a.m.

New subject: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Hi, I have the same need.

Is it possible at least to include the CPUU vmstat graph in the CPU column page just under the la graph ?

On 9/13/07, Sherman, Larry, GCM <Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com> wrote:

...

Vernon, The attached 2 files are from: http://www.deadcat.net/

I currently use the bb-top-3.2.sh, which some custom mods for my environment that you don't need, so I picked up a clean one for you.

I also included a new (2003), perl based bb-top.pl that I noticed. I am going to look at it, and migrate to it if it make sense.

On the PC platform, we noticed that bbwin would not trigger as we had hopped on a multi core machine when a process would bury one core, but the other would be idle. I'll dig up the details for the changes we made if you, or anyone else is interested.

Larry

-----Original Message----- *From:* vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au [mailto: vernon.everett at westernpower.com.au] *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:56 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] CPU utilisation alerts

Hi Larry

I am a little rusty with Hobbit :-( Any chance you can post the changes you made on your client and server configs? Did you define a new graph to go with this test?

Regards Vernon

"Sherman, Larry, GCM" <Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com> wrote on 13/09/2007 11:47:16 AM:

...
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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