Nagios Plugin check_swap

check_swap - check the swap usage

[/etc/nrpe.d/check_swap]
command[check_swap]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_swap -b -w 50% -c 80%

Usage note

This plugin checks the swap utilization.
Copyright (C) 2014,2015 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan@gmail.com>
Usage:
  check_swap [-b,-k,-m,-g] [-s] -w PERC -c PERC
Options:
  -b,-k,-m,-g     show output in bytes, KB (the default), MB, or GB
  -s, --vmstats   display the virtual memory perfdata
  -w, --warning PERCENT   warning threshold
  -c, --critical PERCENT   critical threshold
  -h, --help      display this help and exit
  -V, --version   output version information and exit
Examples:
  check_swap --vmstats -w 30% -c 50%

Example of output

swap OK: 0.00% (12 kB) used | swap_total=8388604kB swap_used=12kB swap_free=8388592kB swap_cached=0kB, swap_pageins/s=0 swap_pageouts/s=0

Performance data

swap_total swap_used swap_free swap_cached swap_pageins/s swap_pageouts/s