SWAP

Explanation

SWAP is the enclosing tag for all threshold entries.

Parent

OSAGENT

allowed values

• THRESHOLD

• COMMANDYou may want to use something like sudo

Count

0 or 1. If you don't define SWAP, no swap check will run.

Example

<SWAP>
  <!-- 70% utilisation of your swap is WARNING -->
  <THRESHOLD>
    <MAX>70</MAX>
    <ERRORLEVEL>WARNING</ERRORLEVEL>
  </THRESHOLD>
  <!-- a utilisation of more then 90% is ERROR -->
  <THRESHOLD>
    <MAX>90</MAX>
    <ERRORLEVEL>ERROR</ERRORLEVEL>
    <DESCRIPTION>Increase the swap-space</DESCRIPTION>
  </THRESHOLD>
</SWAP>
        

THRESHOLD

Explanation

define your threshold and error level here

Parent

SWAP

allowed values

• MAX

• The common XML tags as described in Section 9.8, “Tags Common to All Checks and/or Checkpoints”

Count

As many as you like.

Example

Look at SWAP

MAX

Explanation

threshold (in percent) of utilisation of swap space

Parent

THRESHOLD

allowed values

integer values from 1 till 100 (percent)

Count

1

Example

Look at SWAP

COMMAND

Explanation

Use the COMMAND-tag to do another system call to get swap information (depends on operating system). Currently AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris are supported. You can work with sudo.

the swap check expects for AIX the output of swap -l, for HP-UX the output of swapinfo, free for Linux and swap -l for Solaris

Parent

• OSAGENT

allowed values

string

Count

0 or 1

If you specify no COMMAND, the default will be used.

Example

<SWAP>
  <!-- here we are on an aix box 
       note: swap -l is the default for aix -->
  <COMMAND>sudo -u root /usr/sbin/swap -l</COMMAND>

  <!-- 70% utilisation of your swap is WARNING -->
  <THRESHOLD>
    <MAX>70</MAX>
    <ERRORLEVEL>WARNING</ERRORLEVEL>
  </THRESHOLD>
  <!-- a utilisation of more then 90% is ERROR -->
  <THRESHOLD>
    <MAX>90</MAX>
    <ERRORLEVEL>ERROR</ERRORLEVEL>
    <DESCRIPTION>Increase the swap-space</DESCRIPTION>
  </THRESHOLD>
</SWAP>