[CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

Pascal Robert probert at macti.ca
Tue Sep 22 18:50:16 UTC 2009


Le 09-09-22 à 04:48, Christoph Maser a écrit :

> Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb
> Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Pascal Robert <probert at macti.ca>  schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20:
>>
>>> [root at golgoth ~]# iostat
>>
>> I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of
>> iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let
>> it collect some data before even starting to care about it.
>>
>> Frank.
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> Why ignore it, us it correctly. From the manpage:
>
> "The first report generated by the iostat  command  provides  
> statistics
> concerning the time since the system was booted"

Ok, but since the Nagios plugin will not call it with an interval, it  
will be always the same stats. Look like I will have to look at what  
Dell OpenManage have to offer for I/O stats.


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