Process Load

[sjbalaji]

HI,
In my windows zabbix agent,i found Process Load,Process Load5,Process Load15.
Can anyone what is these variants?
Also i have dual processor,anyone can help me to setup monitoring the CPU load for both processor ?

TIA.

[tchjts1]

This link describes "Load" for Unix style systems, but I believe it applies to your question for Windows as well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)

Don't confuse "load" with actual processor usage (idle time, system time, user time, wait time, etc).

Where I work, we prefer to look at processor usage first as an indicator of processor health, and use Load as a supplemental indicator.

If you are interested in creating metrics for processor usage for each processor, you can do so by the following:

You will need to create userparameters for monitoring usage of your various processors. To get this userparameter list, you have to log onto the machine and run the following command at a DOS prompt - C:\>typeperf -qx > perflist.txt

This will create a list you can then search for the proper syntax to use in your userparameter keys. I suggest using a program such as Uedit or Notepad++ to search the document. Do a keyword search on "processor" and you will get many returns. This is what I see on a 4 processor machine for User Time:

\Processor(0)\% User Time
\Processor(1)\% User Time
\Processor(2)\% User Time
\Processor(3)\% User Time

You can then enter these values for your userparameters, along with other values you want to monitor (system time, idle time, etc) and create graphs with them.

This post may help you a bit in creating your userparameter keys:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=41455#post41455