Another alert question

argis · Post by **argis** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 1:11 pm

I've been asked to set up an alert for when the CPU usage on a certain server is at 100% for 5 minutes.
I can't see how to do this without setting the warning threshold to 100%, but I don't want to do that as it messes with our normal reporting.
Is it possible to do this some other way?

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:27 pm

Depends on what exactly means "certain server".
Some systems support SNMP protocol and may provide average CPU usage over 5sec, 1min, 5minutes.

Regards
Alex

argis · Post by **argis** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:19 pm

It's a Windows 2019 server. Is it possible to do?

Otherwise I could script a solution, saving the results of the scheduled CPU test to a text file and processing that. It's a messy solution though.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:55 am

Sorry, there is no such counter on Windows systems.

I can't see how to do this without setting the warning threshold to 100%, but I don't want to do that as it messes with our normal reporting.

I think you may setup 2 CPU tests
- one for reporting (using your "normal" threshold)
- another for this specific alert ("bad" threshold 99%, start "bad" action after 5th consecutive result (if test performed avery 60 sec))

Regards
Alex

argis · Post by **argis** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:18 pm

Well I guess that would be the easiest solution.
Thanks Alex.