I know most of software that you mentioned , particularly i use Pandora fms
that use agent for memory warning . Pandora use this command : cat
/proc/meminfo | grep MemFree | awk '{ print $2 }' . I wrote to Pandora
support because i think is misleading .2011/4/11 Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:55:13PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > [Sorry for the toppost, but I can't be arsed to edit the > > already-buggered quoting] > > > [cut] > > > > Regardless, I suggest you *collect*, *graph* and *trend* these > > values, but don't alert or warn based on them. On the other hand, you > > may dislike a good night's sleep. > > For which there are plenty of already working applications; munin, > nagios, collectd, cacti and so on. Monitoring the amount of free memory > on a machine is such a common task that there's almost no need to > re-invent the wheel. > >
