Linux SSH (Device Type)
  • 11 Jan 2023
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Device Type Description

Device License Value: 1.0

Use of this device type is not recommended, as it imposes a higher system load on both Netreo and the managed device(s) being monitored.

This poller uses the following commands:

  • cat /proc/stat
  • cat /proc/meminfo
  • cat /proc/diskstats
  • cat /proc/net/dev

Collected Statistics

Stat GroupingMetric
UnitATA Category
Memory StatisticsAvailableBMemory
Overall UtilizationSystem%Memory
Overall AverageSystem%CPU
Utilization by CoreProcessor%CPU
BandwidthInb/sBandwidth
BandwidthOutb/sBandwidth
ErrorInerror/sError
ErrorOuterror/sError

Requirements

There are some requirements for the managed device to which this device type is assigned.

Netreo Configuration

No special configuration of Netreo is required to use this device type.

External Configuration

Netreo must be able to communicate via SSH with the managed device being polled using an account that has read permissions to the /proc filesystem and the ability to execute the df, grep and ethtool binaries.


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