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  • check CPU

    Introduction

    check_cpu 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).

    Syntax

    $ check_cpu [-c CRITICAL] [-w WARING] [-i CRITICAL_IO]

    Parameters

        -w VALUE       cpu usage warning level  (default: 75)
        -c VALUE       cpu usage critical level (default: 90)
    
        -i VALUE       io wait critical level   (default: 50)
    
        -h or --help   show this help.
    

    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