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Check memory and swap usage on Windows or Linux Server using SNMP queries

Rating
9 votes
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2
Current Version
2.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-02
Compatible With
  • Nagios 3.x
  • Nagios 4.x
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License
GPL
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Check memory and swap usage on Windows or Linux Server using SNMP queries
This plugin can check memory and swap usage on Windows or Linux Server using SNMP v1 queries.
check_snmp_memory is written in Bash and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. This plugin have been created by Yoann LAMY.

Usage: ./check_snmp_memory -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -C public -w 80 -c 90

-H ADDRESS
Name or IP address of host (default: 127.0.0.1)
-C STRING
Community name for the host's SNMP agent (default: public)
-w INTEGER
Warning level for memory in percent (default: 0)
-c INTEGER
Critical level for memory in percent (default: 0)
-h
Print this help screen
-V
Print version and license information

This plugin uses the 'snmpget' command included with the NET-SNMP package.
This plugin support performance data output. If the percentage of the warning and critical levels are set to 0, then the script returns a OK state.

This nagios plugins comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

You may redistribute copies of the plugins under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
Reviews (6)
bynereid, December 9, 2014
On linux system this plugin creates false alerts by exceeding thresholds without any reason. The way the memory usage is calclulated is just plain wrong. It tries to tell us that most systems have 98% usage just because the buffers for I/O are using them but they have to be subtracted before taking the thresholds into account.
I have this plugin up and running and it works really well. One issue that I am having is that I cannot get the Warning and Critical state to trigger an alarm. I have -w 80 -c 90 set and I have a server at 98% ram utilization, but the status in Nagios shows as Green status. Any suggestions?
I do some change to the script to support faulty Windows 2000.

Defined 2 new OID:

OID_TOTAL_W2K="HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrMemorySize"
OID_USED_W2K="HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerfMem"

and then added after

MEMORY_USED_ID=`$CMD_SNMPWALK -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY $HOSTNAME $OID_TAGMEMORY | $CMD_GREP -i 'Physical Memory\|Real Memory' | $CMD_AWK '{ print $1}' | $CMD_AWK -F "." '{print $NF}'`

this test:

if [ -z "$MEMORY_USED_ID" ]; then
MEMORY_USED_ID="0"
fi

finally, in main block:


if [ $MEMORY_USED_ID != "0" ]; then
MEMORY_TOTAL=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_TOTAL}.${MEMORY_USED_ID}`
SWAP_TOTAL=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_TOTAL}.${SWAP_USED_ID}`
MEMORY_UNIT=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_UNIT}.${MEMORY_USED_ID}`
SWAP_UNIT=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_UNIT}.${SWAP_USED_ID}`
MEMORY_USED=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_USED}.${MEMORY_USED_ID}`
SWAP_USED=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_USED}.${SWAP_USED_ID}`
else
# Windows 2000
MEMORY_TOTAL=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_TOTAL_W2K}.0`
SWAP_TOTAL=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_TOTAL}.${SWAP_USED_ID}`
MEMORY_UNIT=1024
SWAP_UNIT=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_UNIT}.${SWAP_USED_ID}`
MEMORY_USED=`$CMD_SNMPWALK -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY $HOSTNAME ${OID_USED_W2K} | cut -f 4 -d " " |paste -sd+|bc`
SWAP_USED=`$CMD_SNMPGET -t 2 -r 2 -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY -OvqU $HOSTNAME ${OID_USED}.${SWAP_USED_ID}`

fi


Maybe isn't best way, but t works.
Regards
Cristiano
byluckyz, March 22, 2012
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
It needs only one change when deciding whether to notify for WARNING or CRITICAL status:

------------------------
instead of:

if [ $MEMORY_USED_REAL_POURCENT -gt $WARNING ] && [ $WARNING != 0 ]; then
STATE=$STATE_WARNING

this line shall be like this:

if [ $MEMORY_USED_REAL_POURCENT -gt $WARNING ] && [ $MEMORY_USED_REAL_POURCENT -lt $CRITICAL ] && [ $WARNING != 0 ]; then
STATE=$STATE_WARNING
----------------------------

Also, the value for size should be changed from Go to GB.
Owner's reply

Thank you, it is corrected.

Regards.

byMajed, December 13, 2011
on a 12 GB memory produces an error:
./check_snmp_memory.txt -H 172.16.1.100 -C snmp -w 80 -c 90
./check_snmp_memory.txt: line 123: /usr/bin/bc: No such file or directory
./check_snmp_memory.txt: line 123: /usr/bin/bc: No such file or directory
./check_snmp_memory.txt: line 123: /usr/bin/bc: No such file or directory
./check_snmp_memory.txt: line 123: /usr/bin/bc: No such file or directory
Memory usage : Go used for a total of Go (92%), SWAP usage : Go used for a total of Go (45%)| total=12873891840B;10299113472;11586502656;0 used=11957960704B;0;0;0 swap=12575440896B;0;0;0 buffer=0B;0;0;0 cache=0B;0;0;0
Owner's reply

This error indicates that the command bc was not found.

- yum install bc
- whereis bc

Regards.

byn0ts, July 21, 2011
This plugins is very useful.
I support procotol version.
https://gist.github.com/1097533

Thanks.