Checks check cpu

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Check CPU

Script: check_cpu

It is a plugin to check cpu usage and cpu io wait. It reads cpu data from output of top command and shows

hwi - Time spent handling hardware interrupt routines. (Whenever a peripheral unit want attention form the CPU, it literally pulls a line, to signal the CPU to service it) swi - Time spent handling software interrupt routines. (a piece of code, calls an interrupt routine…) st - Time spent on involuntary waits by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (stolen from a virtual machine)

nice - Time spent running niced user processes (User defined priority) wait - Time spent on waiting on IO peripherals (eg. disk)

system - Time spent in kernel space user - Time spent in user space idle - Time spent in idle operations

For all values it sends performance data.

If there are processes with status D they will be shown (to analyze cpu waits).

Standalone installation

From this repository you need next to this script:

  • inc_pluginfunctions shared function for all IML checks written in bash

Syntax

> check_cpu -h
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CHECK_CPU
v1.16

(c) Institute for Medical Education - University of Bern
Licence: GNU GPL 3

https://os-docs.iml.unibe.ch/icinga-checks/Checks/check_cpu.html
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check cpu usage and cpu wait
Cpu infos are taken from output of top command.

On higher cpu usage it can show processes that cause cpu waits and
with most cpu consumption.

SYNTAX:

    check_cpu [-w WARN_LIMIT] [-c CRITICAL_LIMIT] [-i CRITICAL_IO_WAIT] [-p PROCESS_LIMIT]

OPTIONS:

    -w VALUE       cpu usage warning level  (default: 75)
    -c VALUE       cpu usage critical level (default: 90)

    -i VALUE       io wait critical level   (default: 50)

    -p VALUE       show process info with highest cpu consumption if 
                   usage is > NN %; default: 50

    -h or --help   show this help.

PARAMETERS:

    None.

EXAMPLE:

    check_cpu -w 60 -c 80 -p 40

Examples

check_cpu -w 60 -c 80 -i 40 check cpu usage. It shows a warning if usage is higer 60%. It shows critical status if usage is higer 80% or io wait is 40%

./check_cpu -w 60 -c 80 -i 40
OK: CPU-USAGE [%] 11.3 ... user: 6.2 - system: 4.1 - idle: 88.7 - wait: 0.0

Limits: usage warn at 60 .. critical at 80 .. io wait limit 40
INFO  : cpu is in normal ranges.

Legend:

   hwi - Time spent handling hardware interrupt routines. (Whenever a peripheral unit want attention form the CPU, it literally pulls a line, to signal the CPU to service it)
   swi - Time spent handling software interrupt routines. (a piece of code, calls an interrupt routine...)
    st - Time spent on involuntary waits by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (stolen from a virtual machine)

  nice - Time spent running niced user processes (User defined priority)
  wait - Time spent on waiting on IO peripherals (eg. disk)

system - Time spent in kernel space
  user - Time spent in user space
  idle - Time spent in idle operations

 |cpu-usage=11.3;60;80;0;100 cpu-wait=0.0;;40;0;100 cpu-system=4.1;;;0;100 cpu-user=6.2;;;0;100 cpu-idle=88.7;;;0;100 cpu-nice=0.0;;;0;100 cpu-hwi=0.5;;;0;100 cpu-swi=0.5;;;0;100 cpu-st=0.0