RMA Memory and Trends

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Quantum
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RMA Memory and Trends

Post by Quantum »

Two things

1. How do I use RMA to read available RAM on a system ? I am using the Perfmon option for machines on my network but that needs user rights so for machines outside it does not work. I was supprised to see that there is not a explicit 'available memory' test, but hey.

2. Is there an easy way of getting an average CPU usage over the last 5 minutes and using that to alert on ? For example

100% for 5 seconds is fine
100% for 60 seconds is not so good
100% for 10 minutes is bad

Additionaly

80% for the last 3 hours is bad

and even 40% for the last day is not that good


Hope you see where I am going with this.

-Q
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Post by KS-Soft »

1. How do I use RMA to read available RAM on a system ? I am using the Perfmon option for machines on my network but that needs user rights so for machines outside it does not work. I was supprised to see that there is not a explicit 'available memory' test, but hey.
Your system needs administrator's access to remote system only if you use "Select a counter" dialog. If you select agent and type counter name manually (e.g. \Memory\Available MBytes), test wil be performed by RMA without problem.
2. Is there an easy way of getting an average CPU usage over the last 5 minutes and using that to alert on ? For example
As I know Windows does not provide any counter that can show average CPU Usage over the last N min. It means you need to use standard CPU Usage test (that checks real time CPU usage) and modify action profile to start alert when N consecutive Bad results occur.
E.g. check CPU load every 1 min and execute alert action when 10 tests in a row fail.

Regards
Alex
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