Pandora FMS question

[Red Squirrel]

In pandora, say i have a server where the cpu spikes a lot for short periods of time, when it happens to be high durring the check interval, does it continuously check from that point to see if it stays true, or does it only check if it's still high after the threshold time?

So say my cpu alert is set to a 15 minute threshold, does the cpu only have to be at 90%+ durring those two intervals, or will it check to make sure it's true during the whole 15 minutes? I'm trying to figure out why we keep getting alerts for one of our servers. It's a report server so it spikes a lot, but it's normal. I disabled the alert for now, but I rather not do that in case a report loops badly and it does in fact go for a full 15+ minutes.

 

[Nothinman]

I haven't used Pandora, except for the music app by the that name, but most monitoring software doesn't do excessive polling. If it sees the CPU usage is above 90% on one poll it's not going to continually poll every X seconds to see if it's still true, hell that would probably exacerbate the problem. It'll just check on it's next normal intervals and if it's still true after however many polling intervals equates to >15 min it'll send an alert.