Extend snmpd to add detailed CPU statistics, per cpu

I needed to export detailed CPU statistics from Linux servers using SNMP. While UCD-SNMP-MIB export some detailed stats, it only does it for the whole system. I may have missed something easier though :-)

So here is a BASH script, put it in /etc/snmp/percpustats:

#!/bin/bash
/bin/grep "^$1 " /proc/stat | sed -e 's/^cpu[0-9]* *//' | tr ' ' '\n' 

Make it executable:

chmod +x /etc/snmp/percpustats 

This simple script takes a single argument, which is the cpu id you want to look at. By “cpu id”, I mean the first word of cpu* lines in /proc/stat . So cpu, cpu0, cpu1, etc. Here is a sample content of my /proc/stat file:

# cat /proc/stat
cpu  190769457 225375 18212019 746796473 443933 1361 1240780 0 346283 0
cpu0 98979159 94876 9197600 368299173 282702 1361 1240721 0 164117 0
cpu1 91790298 130498 9014419 378497299 161231 0 58 0 182166 0 

In your snmpd config file, you will need to add one extra config line per CPU you want to look at. Let’s say you have 3 CPU in your computer, you would need to add the following lines to get stats for the system in general (cpu) and details for each cpu (cpu0,cpu1,cpu2):

extend cpu /etc/snmp/percpustats cpu
extend cpu0 /etc/snmp/percpustats cpu0
extend cpu1 /etc/snmp/percpustats cpu1
extend cpu2 /etc/snmp/percpustats cpu2 

Restart snmpd .

You can check the output using snmpwalk:

snmpwalk -v 2c -c yourcommunity yourip NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendObjects 

You should get something like this:

NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".1 = STRING: 52183124
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".2 = STRING: 2487538
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".3 = STRING: 64930047
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".4 = STRING: 13880645861
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".5 = STRING: 1503768
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".6 = STRING: 5350929
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".7 = STRING: 57971310
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu".8 = STRING: 0
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".1 = STRING: 3557627
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".2 = STRING: 42604
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".3 = STRING: 4803282
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".4 = STRING: 1749637588
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".5 = STRING: 27945
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".6 = STRING: 1
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".7 = STRING: 65021
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu0".8 = STRING: 0
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".1 = STRING: 5861096
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".2 = STRING: 472784
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".3 = STRING: 6472817
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".4 = STRING: 1733427227
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".5 = STRING: 426662
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".6 = STRING: 918093
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".7 = STRING: 10555401
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."cpu1".8 = STRING: 0 

Now you can use these in your favourite monitoring/graph tools.