On 08/20/2009 12:33 PM, cr...@hooters-uk.com wrote: > Hi Group, I hope you can give me a better > understanding of the check_load command as I'm unsure > what my settings should be aligned to, if you take a > look at the below command line I get Warning and > Critical alerts all the time and I'm not sure what to > alter the figure to as I do not understand them at > the minute. > > command[check_load]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load > -w 15,10,5 -c 30,25,20 > > The above line give: WARNING - load average: 3.99, > 4.56, 7.60 > > Looking at the warning and given the fact that the > server guys says that his server is running OK, what > would be the ideal -w and -c be to use. > > I will try and read up on the above but just looking > for help now on this one server. > > Many thanks > > Craig
It's not an exact science here - more of a black art. I found this page to be a good primer on the topic: http://hissohathair.blogspot.com/2008/07/tuning-nagios-load-checks.html DR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null