SystemEDGE Can track the value of these metrics over time and alarm when they exceed some pre-defined threshold. Monitoring the health and availability of clients is important because those systems are often the weak link of most business processes. If client systems are not performing, for example, brokers cannot enter trades, order processors cannot take orders, and call centers cannot process calls. This snapshot, taken from AdvantEDGE View, depicts the current CPU utilization for a desktop win2k client system located within the Concord network. This snapshot, taken with MRTG, depicts the load average over time.
Load average is a decaying average of the length of the system's run-queue.
In this case, the value is 100 times the actual load-average because SNMP does not possess the ability to transmit fractions. Consequently, a load-average of 660 is really 6.60. Monitoring load-average over time is important because it gives a good indication of how buys a system is. SystemEDGE can monitor load-average and alarm when it exceeds some threshold. This snapshot, taken with AdvantEDGE View and SystemEDGE's history capability, depicts the run-queue length over time.