Monitoring CPU eating processes

[yatesco]

Hi,

I occasionally get an email from Zabbix stating that the CPU is wigging out on one of my machines - it would be really neat if there was a way in zabbix to see the process list for that machine at that time. At the moment I am having to go use splunk, which is a bit of a heavy weight beast just for this.

What do you do to solve this fairly common usecase?

Thanks,

Col

[Wonderer]

I think there is no direct way of doing this.

One possible tricky solution that I have in my mind, is to have a "RemoteCommand" with some special script in the action list for the corresponding trigger. (And the RemoteCommand support enabled on the host)
And the RemoteCommand script itself will use zabbix_sender to put a list of processes into the separate ZabbixTrapper item, and a separate trigger watching this item.
So after you receive notification about high CPU usage, you should receive another one with the process list.

Tricky, is not it? :)

[yatesco]

I think there is no direct way of doing this.

One possible tricky solution that I have in my mind, is to have a "RemoteCommand" with some special script in the action list for the corresponding trigger. (And the RemoteCommand support enabled on the host)
And the RemoteCommand script itself will use zabbix_sender to put a list of processes into the separate ZabbixTrapper item, and a separate trigger watching this item.
So after you receive notification about high CPU usage, you should receive another one with the process list.

Tricky, is not it? :)
I see - fair enough :)

[jerrylenk]

Here is my suggestion:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17874
Jerry

[yatesco]

Nice one - thanks, I shall have a look.