load

#!/bin/sh

: << =cut

=head1 NAME

load - Script to monitor load average

=head1 CONFIGURATION

No configuration

=head1 AUTHOR

Unknown author

=head1 LICENSE

GPLv2

=head1 NOTES

=head2 DESCRIPTION

This will report back the 5-minute average load of the system.
It uses /usr/bin/uptime, /usr/bin/printf, /usr/bin/sed, /usr/bin/awk.

=head2 RESCTRICTIONS

None, unless you have restricted who can use /usr/bin/uptime.

=head1 MAGIC MARKERS

 #%# family=contrib
 #%# capabilities=autoconf

=cut

if [ "$1" = "autoconf" ]; then
	echo yes
	exit 0
fi

if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
        echo 'graph_title Load average'
        echo 'graph_args --base 1000 -l 0'
        echo 'graph_vlabel load'
        echo 'graph_scale no'
        echo 'graph_category system'
        echo 'load.label load'
        echo 'load.warning 10'
        echo 'load.critical 120'
        echo 'graph_info The load average of the machine describes how many processes are in the run-queue (scheduled to run "immediately").'
        echo 'load.info Average load for the five minutes.'

        exit 0
fi

/usr/bin/printf "load.value "
/usr/bin/uptime | /usr/bin/sed 's/.*average: //;s/,//g' | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $2 }'