Linux load avarage trigger

[mixmox]

Hello
i want to monitor TOP command in linux,
it show load average which is very important for monitoring server
i cant find any specific rule to monitor this and alarm if load was above X
any help for that how can i monitor Load average ?
also when we say CPU LOAD AVERAGE it means load value that returns by top command????

[tim.mooney]

Collect system.cpu.load[] and alert based on that. If you look at the Linux templates, I believe one of them has an example of collecting the load average.