[zenoss-users] Close But No Cigar!

[Erik Abele]

On 02.07.2008, at 15:06, ggombert wrote:

> Hi,
> 	We are running a number of Dell 2950’s/6580’s with Red Hat Linux 4  
> OS. All of the servers show %cpu utilization in the hundreds of %.  
> I really like Zenoss Core and the way that it is easy to setup and  
> use. It seems in every way comparable to the commercial Solarwinds  
> monitoring package that we have also setup here and installed.  
> Unless I can resolve this %CPU scaling problem, I have to say  
> ‘Close But No Cigar’ to the Zenoss Core package and move on and  
> look at other monitoring solutions. Any suggestions on the cause /  
> fix for this problem would be most appreciated.
>  [Crying or Very sad]

Umm, you've more than one core on these boxes, right? If so then  
it'll show e.g. 800% as a max for e.g. 8 cores etc... hth...

Can you, for example, post the output of: cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

Cheers,
Erik