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A customer of ours wanted to get emails from his server, if the load ever rose above a certain number.

Here’s a script I wrote up to accomplish this:

EMAIL="your email 1"
SUBJECT="Alert $(hostname) load average is $L05"
TEMPFILE="/tmp/$(hostname)"
TOPLOAD="10"
echo "Load average Crossed allowed limit." >> $TEMPFILE
echo "Hostname: $(hostname)" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "Local Date & Time : $(date)" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "| Uptime status: |" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
/usr/bin/uptime >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "| Top 20 CPU consuming processes: |" >> $TEMPFILE
ps aux | head -1 >> $TEMPFILE
ps aux --no-headers | sort -rn +2 | head -20 >> $TEMPFILE
echo "| Top 10 memory-consuming processes: |" >> $TEMPFILE
ps aux --no-headers| sort -rn +3 | head >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "| Memory and Swap status: |" >> $TEMPFILE
/usr/bin/free -m >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "| Active network connection: |" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
/bin/netstat -tnup | grep ESTA >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "| Disk Space information: |" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-------------------------------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
/bin/df -h >> $TEMPFILE
echo "-----------------THE END-------------------" >> $TEMPFILE
L05="$(uptime|awk '{print $(NF-2)}'|cut -d. -f1)"
if test $L05 -gt $TOPLOAD
then
mail -s "$SUBJECT  $L05" "$EMAIL" < $TEMPFILE
fi
rm -f $TEMPFILE
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Add this to the root crontab on the server by running:
[bash]echo "* * * * * /root/loadalert >/dev/null 2>&1" >> /var/spool/cron/root

Now we need to restart crond to pick up the change:

/etc/init.d/crond restart

I hope this helps someone out there!