On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Mark Elsen <mark.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> Is there a plugin bundled with nagios-plugins that helps us in checking >> the memory usage on the linux box. I basically want to know the used >> memory and the total available , Even if it is given in percentage i am >> fine. Please let me know if there are plugins to do so. >> >> I checked the plugins that come by default in the libexex folder but >> none are there for checking the memory usage. >> >> > I use : 'check_snmp_mem' ; yet you have to make sure that the snmp > configuration file on the targeted > Linux box, allows access to the MIB Subtree, containing the queried variables. > > M. > I just use a bash script (passive check) that does the following:
#Get the amount of RAM used ram_used=`free | grep Mem | awk '{ print $3 }'` #Get the total amount of RAM total_ram=`free | grep Mem | awk '{ print $2 }'` #Calculate the percent of RAM used percent_ram_used=$((100 * ram_used / total_ram)) #Get the amount of swap used swap_used=`free | grep Swap | awk '{ print $3 }'` --Rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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