Monitoring Unix servers CPU, memory and hard-disk

[Melanie Pfefer]

check_load works on the local server only right?

how to check_load on $HOSTNAME???

thanks
--- Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> James E. Pratt wrote:
> > Kinda off-topic, but why on earth would you care
> much about memory
> > details on a Linux box? Most memory is cached, so
> output from, say,
> > "free" is kinda useless. (Not sure where that
> plugin gets it's info
> > though either?).. IMO You are much better off
> monitoring loadavg . (Or,
> > am I just losing it?) 
> >
> > Regards,
> > jp
> You would care if you've ever used Linux and heard
> of oom-killer.
> 
> I wrote a plugin ages ago that checks this and takes
> this caching 
> behaviour of Linux in to account.
> 
>
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Linux.55.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=909
> 
> This plugin counts cache ram as free by default as
> it effectively is on 
> Linux architecture and so this is the correct thing
> to do, but there is 
> also a switch to change this behaviour if you want.
> 
> -h
> 
> -- 
> Hari Sekhon
> 
> 
>
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