[Nagiosplug-help] Re: load plugin

[Karl DeBisschop]

Dan Stromberg writes: 

> I set up the load plugin for a few of my machines.  Two are suns, one is
> linux.  If it works out well, I'd like to get it set up for many more
> hosts. 
> 
> One of the suns is a critical server I look after for a client.  The
> plugin has been reporting some astonishingly high load average numbers
> for this machine.  We've been trying to convince the client for some
> time to upgrade this hardware.  If we can trust these numbers, this
> might be the information we need to get the upgrade. 
> 
> However, another one of the machines I set up with the load plugin, is a
> redhat box.  It didn't have rstatd configured, but the load plugin kept
> giving fairly high numbers for it too.  Once, nagios gave two
> consecutive criticals with identical numbers for the sun and the redhat
> box, even though I had neglected to configure rstatd on the redhat box. 
> 
> How trustworthy is the load plugin?  Is it, or perhaps the nagios
> framework, sometimes using uninitialized memory?  Why didn't it give an
> error about not being able to contact my rstatd?

The plugin has a good track record. It does not support host checks by 
itself, however. Sounds like you did not install nrpe and expect some magic 
to happen. Won't work - you need to provide the magic. 

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Karl