<tt>nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 25.02.2008 00:26:40: > > Shortly after writing this, I found this plugin > > > > http://www.ofn.dk/files/software/check_iostat > > > UPDATE: > > > > I configured my Perl environment (i.e. installed Perl modules from > > cpan, etc), and now when implement this from the commad line, I get > > something like this > > > > ./check_iostat.pl > > IOSTAT OK - user 2.01 nice 0.00 sys 3.46 iowait 2.38 idle 92.15 | > > iowait=2.38%;; idle=92.15%;; user=2.01%;; nice=0.00%;; sys=3.46%;; > > > > this doesn't have /dev/ info that I'd expect to get from iostat, > > such as sda > > > What might I be missing? > > Reading the plugin, it's only running and parsing 'iostat -c' to > process the cpu utilization report, not the device utilization report. > > my $output = `$iostat -c`; </tt> <tt>To my knowledge, there is no such plugin available at the moment.</tt> <tt>As I already wrote, I am currently working on one though ;)</tt> <tt>On a sidenote: Forget about running it via nrpe, this would be flawed</tt> <tt>by design. Since iostat only reports bus usage in realtime and has no</tt> <tt>means of displaying averages, it would mean you would have the usage of</tt> <tt>your bus for the time of 1 second every minute (at best). Doesn't help</tt> <tt>at all. Trust me, I excessively tried things when messing with iostat</tt> <tt>parsing on our high load oracle servers. ;) You need to call iostat</tt> <tt>with multiple checks - the longer the better - but then it means you</tt> <tt>would have to run iostat for like 30 seconds or so -> plugin runtime</tt> <tt>is 30 seconds too then! That means that check would have a high</tt> <tt>delay/latency, which is overall a bad idea. My solution so far is</tt> <tt>to run the plugin via cron and report output via nsca, this gave</tt> <tt>me the best results.</tt> <tt>Sadly my plugin is currently not in a state to be released, since it</tt> <tt>is yet too far narrowed down to monitor our special oracle environment.</tt> <tt>I still need to make it more configurable and such, but I expect to</tt> <tt>be able to release it in the next 1-2 weeks - depending on how much</tt> <tt>time I have spare to work on it.</tt> <tt>S</tt> -- Sascha Runschke Netzwerk- und Systemmanagement Abt. Organisation und Betrieb - IT-Infrastruktur Telefon : +49 (201) 102-1879 Mobile : +49 (173) 5419665 Fax : +49 (201) 102-1102105 GFKL Financial Services AG Vorstand: Dr. Peter Jänsch (Vors.), Jürgen Baltes, Dr. Till Ergenzinger, Dr. Tom Haverkamp Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Georg F. Thoma Sitz: Limbecker Platz 1, 45127 Essen, Amtsgericht Essen, HRB 13522