title: MySQL: Sessions
agents: linux
catalog: app/mysql
license: GPL
distribution: check_mk
description:
 This check allows tracking of the session parameters for a MySQL database. 
 It reports how many sessions there are in total, how many of them are
 active, and at what rate new sessions are generated. 

 It allows to set {WARN} and {CRIT} tresholds on any of these parameters. 

 The data is gathered from the {show global status} query. 

item:
 The name of the instance

inventory:
 One service is created for each instance for each session connected
 to the MySQL daemon.