[Nagiosplug-devel] Check for available entropy?

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Lundi 26 Février 2007 18:59, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest a écrit :
> Guys,
>
> Would you be interested for a ckeck plugin for available entropy? In the
> past years I often had server performance problems caused by running out
> of entropy (uften fixed by using urandom instead of random). I was going
> to make a quick one for our systems, but if it's going to be included in
> Nagios-plugins I'd rather write a C one integrated to Nagios-plugins.
>
> Also, I know ho to check this on linux
> (/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail), what about FreeBSD (*BSD),
> Solaris and OS-X?
>
> I believe that by adding this check we'll encourage people to check this
> which is a GoodThing(tm)

Hello,

i'am interested in this check go ahead ;-)

Cheers
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Benoit Mortier
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