9 Replies Latest reply on Apr 16, 2012 9:22 AM by byrona

    MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server

    mkocsis
    mkocsis Feb 3, 2010 8:54 AM

      Our server team has three Linux servers.   On one, NPM is showing high CPU utilization (100%).  The other two are showing more reasonable CPU utilizations (under 10%).

      Our server team wants to know which MIB is NPM looking at to see these values.  Does anyone know this?

      Thank you.

      Michael K

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        • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
          ecklerwr1
          ecklerwr1 Expert Feb 3, 2010 9:18 AM (in response to mkocsis)

          I believe theyare using:

          For servers (Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.), they use HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrProcessorLoad (1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2).

          • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
            lchance
            lchance Feb 3, 2010 9:25 AM (in response to mkocsis)
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            hrProcessorLoad             		INTEGER32
            Legal values: 0 .. 100             		ReadOnly
            The average, over the last minute, of the percentage
of time that this processor was not idle.
Implementations may approximate this one minute
smoothing period if necessary.

            hrProcessorLoad  INTEGER32


            Legal values: 0 .. 100 

            ReadOnly The average, over the last minute, of the percentage
            of time that this processor was not idle.
            Implementations may approximate this one minute
            smoothing period if necessary.

            Do you have APM to where you could discover the processes on that system and see how the CPU load is being used?

              • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
                byrona
                byrona Expert Apr 13, 2010 3:27 PM (in response to lchance)

                How does this work for multi-processor systems? 

                I did a MibWalk on one of my systems and see an hrProcessorLoad for each CPU in the system and would like to know if and how this is taken into consideration?

                  • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
                    ctopaloglu
                    ctopaloglu Apr 13, 2012 9:55 AM (in response to byrona)

                    If I am not mistaken NPM is doing pretty bad job on linux (net-snmp). NPM dosen't understand which unix/linux version? It doesn't understand it's CPU/DISK/Memory accurately. We need an urgent solution if possible?

                      • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
                        byrona
                        byrona Expert Apr 13, 2012 10:00 AM (in response to ctopaloglu)

                        If you use SAM you can get a lot more of this information.  Also with more recent versions NPM & SAM have become much better at handling Linux.  NPM still doesn't see the Linux version but that is less a failure of NPM and more a failure of the net-snmp agent which is terribly maintained.  Since NPM talks to the SNMP agent on a system it relies on the data that agent provides.  SAM gives you a lot more options when it comes to collecting data from a system so I would suggest you give that a try since it's more designed to do Server monitoring.

                         

                        I have a UnDP that will do Load Average for net-snmp systems such as Linux and Unix, you can find that HERE.

                          • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
                            ctopaloglu
                            ctopaloglu Apr 15, 2012 2:50 AM (in response to byrona)

                            Hi Byron,

                             

                            If I am not mistaken you need an agent on the server side for SAM. And nobody wants to install a large sized agent on their servers. Also there are other NMS's (especially free ones) that will show the true information on linux boxes like OS information/CPU/Memory/Disk. So I think the real problem is Orion linux support. Is it too much to ask? Not all systems are windows these days. But thanks for your help anyway.

                             

                            I still need a workaround for all these information.

                              • Re: MIB for CPU Utilization - Linux Server
                                byrona
                                byrona Expert Apr 16, 2012 9:22 AM (in response to ctopaloglu)

                                SAM doesn't use agents.

                                 

                                I realize not all systems are Windows.  We are a cloud hosting provider and have many Linux and even some Unix systems that we support and I have been able to get CPU, Disk, and Memory information for those systems just as easily as I can for our Windows systems.  In my experience Orion fully supports Linux, if you aren't receiving this information you may not have things configured correctly.