https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193602#M51124 allrighty then..<BR /><BR />#!/bin/bash<BR /><BR />cpuidle=`top -n 1 | grep ^Cpu | cut -d"," -f4| cut -d"%" -f1|cut -d" " -f2`<BR />cpuused=`echo 100-$cpuidle | bc`<BR /><BR />memtotal=`top -n 1 | grep ^Mem |awk {'print $3'}|cut -d"k" -f1`<BR />memused=`top -n 1 | grep ^Mem |awk {'print $5'}|cut -d"k" -f1`<BR />mempct=`echo "(${memused}*100)/${memtotal}"| bc`<BR /><BR />echo "CPU Used: ${cpuused}%"<BR />echo "Memory Used: ${mempct}%")<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />If you putt all of the above in a script, run it and pipe it to your mailer, you will receive the desired output Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:13:54 GMT Mel Burslan 2009-08-18T12:13:54Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193598#M51120 Hey gang,<BR /><BR />Does anyone have a nice universal script (meaning no special software needed like glance, etc) that will give a nice quick summary of percentage of memory and CPU usage that can be emailed? Thanks. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:11:07 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193598#M51120 TheJuiceman 2009-08-17T16:11:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193599#M51121 top is available with any new system installation and command <BR /><BR />$ top -n 1 | grep -e ^Cpu -e ^Mem<BR /><BR />provides this output:<BR /><BR />Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.6% id, 0.2% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si<BR />Mem: 1024248k total, 990548k used, 33700k free, 130372k buffers<BR /><BR />which can be piped into your mail agent to send via email or can be further massaged with combination of awk/sed/cut commands to make the output you wish to see.<BR /><BR />Hope this helps Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:52:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193599#M51121 Mel Burslan 2009-08-17T17:52:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193600#M51122 I guess I'm looking for something a bit more than that. Something yielding a percentage used in a neat output like so...<BR /><BR />CPU used: 23%<BR />Memory used: 23%<BR /><BR /> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:49:01 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193600#M51122 TheJuiceman 2009-08-17T18:49:01Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193601#M51123 Mel answered your question, I want just to suggest you to use some NMS (Zenoss, Ganglia, ...) for storing/analyzing historical data.<BR /><BR />Getting email reports once per minute/hour/day seems me almost useless - you don't see any trends in this way. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:55:48 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193601#M51123 Vitaly Karasik_1 2009-08-18T06:55:48Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193602#M51124 allrighty then..<BR /><BR />#!/bin/bash<BR /><BR />cpuidle=`top -n 1 | grep ^Cpu | cut -d"," -f4| cut -d"%" -f1|cut -d" " -f2`<BR />cpuused=`echo 100-$cpuidle | bc`<BR /><BR />memtotal=`top -n 1 | grep ^Mem |awk {'print $3'}|cut -d"k" -f1`<BR />memused=`top -n 1 | grep ^Mem |awk {'print $5'}|cut -d"k" -f1`<BR />mempct=`echo "(${memused}*100)/${memtotal}"| bc`<BR /><BR />echo "CPU Used: ${cpuused}%"<BR />echo "Memory Used: ${mempct}%")<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />If you putt all of the above in a script, run it and pipe it to your mailer, you will receive the desired output Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:13:54 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193602#M51124 Mel Burslan 2009-08-18T12:13:54Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193603#M51125 Oh, I fatfingered and put an extra right paranthesis at the end of the last line of the script, which should not be there. Please remove it. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:18:51 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193603#M51125 Mel Burslan 2009-08-18T12:18:51Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193604#M51126 Mel...that is PERFECT!!!! Thank you so much for your help!!! Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:29:18 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/scripting-cpu-and-memory-usage/m-p/5193604#M51126 TheJuiceman 2009-08-18T13:29:18Z