Clarification on Check_Load Plugin

[Jatin]

Thanks Jelle,

The article cleared a lot of misunderstanding that i had about the 
check_load plugin. Now i understood the difference between load and % 
usage. Thanks for giving this insight.

I was actually looking for a plugin that can give me the %CPU used , Do 
we have one with the default installation of the nagios plugins. Please 
let me know about it.

Thanks
Jatin

Jelle Smet wrote:
>> My question is: How does the plugin claculate the 1 min avg load , 5 min 
>> avg load and 15 min avg load.
>>     
>
> Hi Jatin,
> The Nagios plugins doesn't calculate anything, it just read the load averages
> produced by the Linux/*nix OS itself.
> Have a look at this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001?page=0,0
>
> If you execute following commands on the command line of your linux box you'll
> see the numbers originate from your os itself:
>
> #top
> #w
> #cat /proc/loadavg
> #uptime
> ... most likely a couple more
>
> The only thing the load plugin does is evaluating the threshold you defined to
> the value returned by your OS.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Jelle
>
>
>
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