CentOS - Mar 2006 - Process run away

Hi,

I just found that one of my centos servers was running at 100% cpu and 
had used up all the memory.

I checked system monitor and was not able to find the culprit,  I 
restarted the server and it seems fine now.

Does anyone know of a simple way to have the server email me if the cpu 
load is at max for x amount of time.  I am not
sure how long it was running like that, I have not checked it for a while.

What would you recommend for something like this

Thanks

Mace

Hi,

Mace Eliason wrote:
> Does anyone know of a simple way to have the server email me if the
> cpu load is at max for x amount of time.  I am not
> sure how long it was running like that, I have not checked it for a
> while.
>
> What would you recommend for something like this
I'd recommend nagios, I'm using it to keep track of quite a few
parameters of all my systems.
It has email notifications, quite nice visualizations, etc.
For a complete feature list see http://www.nagios.org/about
For the first time, configuration of nagios is a bit hard, but if you
carefully follow the manual, you'll be amazed by the results!

Regards

   Michael

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