Get Load Average (Remote SSH)

[InfoAddict]

Hi all,

Just a quick one - Im new to cacti but love it already, and was wondering how I could get remote CPU load info without SNMP and saw:

"Get Load Average (Remote SSH)"

How does this work, as I cannot find the file "load.pl" to that I assume that you use in the following line.

ssh <username>@<hostname> perl load.pl

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Dan.

[yid]

Not sure about the "Get Load Average (Remote SSH)", but I would do:

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ssh <user>@hostname "uptime"

You must also be sure to setup trusted host authentication between these hosts with ssh, otherwise it'll require a password upon execution.

Alternatively, you can use netsaint_statd to get these types of statistics remotely. This netsaint/nagios plugin allows you to retrieve load average, disk utilization, processes, and users. For netsaint_statd, check the downloads section of http://www.nagios.org

Aaron