[ale] SNMP oid for file descriptors

Todor Fassl fassl.tod at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 10:00:00 EDT 2018


Well, I am not too worried about being able to calculate it. What I 
cannot figure out is how to get to the numbers remotely.


On 08/06/2018 01:21 PM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> Why not pull the number of file handles you have: "sysctl fs.file-nr" and compare it to current open file handles “lost |wc -l” and do a multi-graph for the metrics.  Then, also subtract the two and alert when you get below whatever threshold you want?
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> I think you should be able to knock that out in BASH or Perl.
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> —j
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>> On Aug 6, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Todor Fassl via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>> Ultimately, what I want to do is to configure nagios to alert me when a server is getting low on file handles. There are a couple of scripts on the nagios web site but they look kind of hokey.
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>> I think all I should have to do is cut/pasete the right SNMP object identifier into the nagios snmp plugin. But how to find that oid?
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Todd


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