UNIX load numbers incorrectly displayed

[Matt Pounsett]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Frank Pikelner wrote:

> I'm using the NET-SNMP (2021 private OIDs) and the check_load plugin. The
> plugin is returning numbers such as (21 47 62) to Nagios, though the uptime
> command correctly identifies the load as 0.21 0.47 and 0.62

I don't believe SNMP has a FLOAT data type, so things like load numbers are
converted to INTEGER.  Just divide the results by 100 and you've got the
original numbers back.

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