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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I switched to using check_nrpe, it allows the use of ShowAll type=physical. My experience with check_nt it includes both physical memory and virtual memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Help [mailto:help-bounces+brian.broughton=ppheartland.org@monitoring-plugins.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bhandara Purayil, Shyam<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 08, 2015 7:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> help@monitoring-plugins.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> check_nt usage query<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are using the check_nt (MEMUSE) plugin to monitor the memory of a server. The server has actually 16G of physical memory.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But the output is:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>/usr/local/groundwork/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H xxx.xx.xx.xx -p 12489 -v MEMUSE -w 80 -c 90 -t 120<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Memory usage: total:22439.84 Mb - used: 8713.17 Mb (39%) - free: 13726.67 Mb (61%) | 'Memory usage'=8713.17Mb;179<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What memory is it monitoring? .Please advise.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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