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Question about Linux Memory alert

list Henrik Størner
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:51:32 +0200
Message-Id: <user-b1a6b8c010a4@xymon.invalid>

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:18:29AM -0500, Taylor Lewick wrote:
Hi all.  I've setup the hobbit-clients.cfg with the following for memory
for our linux servers...

PAGE=NY/NY-Linux
MEMPHYS 100 101
MEMSWAP 60 80
MEMACT  90 95 

But today we started receiving alerts on a host that the physical memory
is 99%.  The actual memory is only 10% used, so my question is why am I
getting alerts on this host.
Two possibilities:

1) This server uses another client (the Big Brother client), or it is
   running the Hobbit client in local-configuration mode so You need
   to change the config out on the server itself; 

2) The server is on a different page than NY/NY-Linux. Try running
   "bbcmd hobbitd_client --test", enter the hostname, no hosttype,
   and "mem" for the test type to see how Hobbit determines your
   config setup.


Regards,
Henrik