CPU check plugin for Nagios
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I've just finished version 1.0 of a CPU check plugin which is sh-compliant (as always) and calculates utilization through Jiffies rather than using another third party tool like iostat or top. This means it should work on all Linux machines right out of the box without the need to install additional software.
Frankly speaking the performance of the script is slightly worse than the performance of most of the other CPU check plugins due to the sacrifice of parsing iostat or top output, but I nevertheless wanted to do this since calculating CPU utilization through Jiffies instead of parsing another tool's ...
Tagged:
cpu,
gplv2,
jiffies,
linux,
nagios,
network monitoring,
open source,
performance,
plugin,
pnp template,
shell scripting,
sysadmin