Hi Ingvar,
I was wondering if the CPU monitor might be intended to monitor the number of CPUs on a system. I'm looking at a Ganglia monitoring webpage right now and one of the things they report is the total number of CPUs a given host or group of hosts has.
Could this be what it is for?
If so, anyone know how to get this information from a host that doesn't have something like /proc/cpuinfo ? Specifically, I'm thinking my Mac laptop (which I do some bogus monitoring of for testing/hacking purposes).
I think it might've been one of those things I intened for routers and switches, where you don't get a load, per se, but a "CPU utilisation percentage". Not a problem if it means different things for different equipment, though.
Or, yes, there is, but... Whoever first writes a PROCESS method for it gets to decide, I think.
//Ingvar