Re: [squid-users] Monitoring multiple squid instances with snmp

From: Artemis BRAJA <a.braja_at_primo.al>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:29:40 +0100

On 01/12/2011 12:00 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 12/01/11 04:37, Artemis BRAJA wrote:
>> Thanks Amos!
>> But now I'm facing another problem while trying to monitor the
>> percentage use of the CPU with the 1.3.6.1.4.1.3495.1.3.1.5.0 OID.
>> While polling (v1 or v2), it keeps returning only the value "1" (each
>> instance).
>> As I saw on the wiki http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Snmp, this OID
>> is for squid version 2.2+, and I'm currently experimenting with version
>> 3.2.0.4.
>> Is this related to the version, or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> snmpwalk -c community -v 1 localhost:3401 1.3.6.1.4.1.3495.1.3.1.5.0
>> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3495.1.3.1.5.0 = INTEGER: 1
>>
>> Artemis
>>
>
> Could be a few things.
>
> * the docs may be broken (unlikely). Try without the trailing .0 to
> see if that looks right.
I tried without .0 but no diference.
> It's a percentage value being cast to an INTEGER for SNMP. So...
> * it may be that you are only using 1% or 100% of a CPU by Squid.
> Check this against other software displaying the machines CPU.
I was doing some benchmarking, so I tried with "top" and the value was
around 15-20 % per instance.
> * the casting may be broken and rounding a large decimal up.
>
> Amos

Anyway I'll solve this with some shell scripts.
Received on Wed Jan 12 2011 - 11:29:48 MST

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