Shell Script to Check Linux System Health

Shell Script to Check Linux System Health

This script collects system information and status like hostname, kernel version, uptime, cpu / memory / disk usage. Script uses hostname, uptime, who, mpstat, lscpu, ps, top, df, free, bc commands to get system information and cut, grep, awk and sed for text processing. The output of the script is a text file which will be generated in the current directory. A variable is set to provide email address to which script can send report file. Apart from system status, the script will check a predefined threshold for cpu load and filesystem size.


linuxhealthcheck.sh

Remember : Make sure you have all the above commands working, to output all results correctly.

#!/bin/bash
EMAIL=”
function sysstat {
echo -e ”
#####################################################################
Health Check Report (CPU,Process,Disk Usage, Memory)
#####################################################################

Hostname         : `hostname`
Kernel Version   : `uname -r`
Uptime           : `uptime | sed ‘s/.*up \([^,]*\), .*/\1/’`
Last Reboot Time : `who -b | awk ‘{print $3,$4}’`

*********************************************************************
CPU Load – > Threshold < 1 Normal > 1 Caution , > 2 Unhealthy
*********************************************************************
”
MPSTAT=`which mpstat`
MPSTAT=$?
if [ $MPSTAT != 0 ] then
echo “Please install mpstat!”
echo “On Debian based systems:”
echo “sudo apt-get install sysstat”
echo “On RHEL based systems:”
echo “yum install sysstat”
else
echo -e “”
LSCPU=`which lscpu`
LSCPU=$?
if [ $LSCPU != 0 ] then
RESULT=$RESULT” lscpu required to producre acqurate reults”
else
cpus=`lscpu | grep -e “^CPU(s):” | cut -f2 -d: | awk ‘{print $1}’`
i=0
while [ $i -lt $cpus ] do
echo “CPU$i : `mpstat -P ALL | awk -v var=$i ‘{ if ($3 == var ) print $4 }’ `”
let i=$i+1
done
fi
echo -e ”
Load Average   : `uptime | awk -F’load average:’ ‘{ print $2 }’ | cut -f1 -d,`

Heath Status : `uptime | awk -F’load average:’ ‘{ print $2 }’ | cut -f1 -d, | awk ‘{if ($1 > 2) print “Unhealthy”; else if ($1 > 1) print “Caution”; else print “Normal”}’`
”
fi
echo -e ”
*********************************************************************
Process
*********************************************************************

=> Top memory using processs/application

PID %MEM RSS COMMAND
`ps aux | awk ‘{print $2, $4, $6, $11}’ | sort -k3rn | head -n 10`

=> Top CPU using process/application
`top b -n1 | head -17 | tail -11`

*********************************************************************
Disk Usage – > Threshold < 90 Normal > 90% Caution > 95 Unhealthy
*********************************************************************
”
df -Pkh | grep -v ‘Filesystem’ > /tmp/df.status
while read DISK
do
LINE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $1,”\t”,$6,”\t”,$5,” used”,”\t”,$4,” free space”}’`
echo -e $LINE
echo
done < /tmp/df.status
echo -e ”

Heath Status”
echo
while read DISK
do
USAGE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -f1 -d%`
if [ $USAGE -ge 95 ] then
STATUS=’Unhealty’
elif [ $USAGE -ge 90 ] then
STATUS=’Caution’
else
STATUS=’Normal’
fi

LINE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $1,”\t”,$6}’`
echo -ne $LINE “\t\t” $STATUS
echo
done < /tmp/df.status
rm /tmp/df.status
TOTALMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $2}’`
TOTALBC=`echo “scale=2;if($TOTALMEM<1024 && $TOTALMEM > 0) print 0;$TOTALMEM/1024″| bc -l`
USEDMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $3}’`
USEDBC=`echo “scale=2;if($USEDMEM<1024 && $USEDMEM > 0) print 0;$USEDMEM/1024″|bc -l`
FREEMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $4}’`
FREEBC=`echo “scale=2;if($FREEMEM<1024 && $FREEMEM > 0) print 0;$FREEMEM/1024″|bc -l`
TOTALSWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $2}’`
TOTALSBC=`echo “scale=2;if($TOTALSWAP<1024 && $TOTALSWAP > 0) print 0;$TOTALSWAP/1024″| bc -l`
USEDSWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $3}’`
USEDSBC=`echo “scale=2;if($USEDSWAP<1024 && $USEDSWAP > 0) print 0;$USEDSWAP/1024″|bc -l`
FREESWAP=`free -m |  tail -1| awk ‘{print $4}’`
FREESBC=`echo “scale=2;if($FREESWAP<1024 && $FREESWAP > 0) print 0;$FREESWAP/1024″|bc -l`

echo -e ”
*********************************************************************
Memory
*********************************************************************

=> Physical Memory

Total\tUsed\tFree\t%Free

${TOTALBC}GB\t${USEDBC}GB \t${FREEBC}GB\t$(($FREEMEM * 100 / $TOTALMEM  ))%

=> Swap Memory

Total\tUsed\tFree\t%Free

${TOTALSBC}GB\t${USEDSBC}GB\t${FREESBC}GB\t$(($FREESWAP * 100 / $TOTALSWAP  ))%
”
}
FILENAME=”health-`hostname`-`date +%y%m%d`-`date +%H%M`.txt”
sysstat > $FILENAME
echo -e “Reported file $FILENAME generated in current directory.” $RESULT
if [ “$EMAIL” != ” ] then
STATUS=`which mail`
if [ “$?” != 0 ] then
echo “The program ‘mail’ is currently not installed.”
else
cat $FILENAME | mail -s “$FILENAME” $EMAIL
fi
fi

Understanding linuxhealthcheck.sh Script

Here is the same script code with comments, so that you can fully understand each command before using it:

#tell which shell to use
#!/bin/bash
#Here we put email address to send email with report. If no email provided – log file will be just saved.
EMAIL=’alerts@account.com’
#We will create function to easily manage what to do with output.
function sysstat {

#Print header, hostname (hostname command used), Kernel version (uname -r) , Uptime (from uptime command) and Last reboot time (from who command)
echo -e ”
#!/bin/bash

function sysstat {

echo -e ”

####################################################################

Health Check Report (CPU,Process,Disk Usage, Memory)

####################################################################

#hostname command returns hostname
Hostname : `hostname`

#uname command with key -r returns Kernel version
Kernel Version : `uname -r`

#uptime command used to get uptime, and with sed command we cat process output to get only uptime.
Uptime : `uptime | sed ‘s/.*up \([^,]*\), .*/\1/’`

#who command is used to get last reboot time, awk for processing output
Last Reboot Time : `who -b | awk ‘{print $3,$4}’`

*********************************************************************

CPU Load – > Threshold < 1 Normal > 1 Caution , > 2 Unhealthy

*********************************************************************

”

#here we check if mpstat command is in our system
MPSTAT=`which mpstat`

#here we get exit code from previous command
MPSTAT=$?

#if exit status in not 0, this means that mpstat command is not found (or not exist in our system)
if [ $MPSTAT != 0 ]

then

echo “Please install mpstat!”

echo “On Debian based systems:”

echo “sudo apt-get install sysstat”

echo “On RHEL based systems:”

echo “yum install sysstat”

else

echo -e “”

#here we check in same way if lscpu installed
LSCPU=`which lscpu`

LSCPU=$?

if [ $LSCPU != 0 ]

then

RESULT=$RESULT” lscpu required to procedure accurate results”

else

#if we have lscpu installed, we can get number of CPU’s on our system and get statistic for each using mpstat command.
cpus=`lscpu | grep -e “^CPU(s):” | cut -f2 -d: | awk ‘{print $1}’`

i=0

#here we make loop to get and print CPU usage statistic for each CPU.
while [ $i -lt $cpus ]

do

#here we get statistic for CPU and print it. Awk command help to do this, since output doesn’t allow this to do with grep. AWK check if third value is equal to variable $i (it changes from 0 to number of CPU), and print %usr value for this CPU
echo “CPU$i : `mpstat -P ALL | awk -v var=$i ‘{ if ($3 == var ) print $4 }’ `”

#here we increment $i variable for loop
let i=$i+1

done

fi

echo -e ”

#here with uptime command we get load average for system, and cut command helps to process result.
Load Average : `uptime | awk -F’load average:’ ‘{ print $2 }’ | cut -f1 -d,`

#same as before, but with awk command we check if system is Normal (if value less than 1, Caution (if between 1 and 2) and Unhealthy.
Heath Status : `uptime | awk -F’load average:’ ‘{ print $2 }’ | cut -f1 -d, | awk ‘{if ($1 > 2) print

“Unhealthy”; else if ($1 > 1) print “Caution”; else print “Normal”}’`

”

fi

echo -e ”

******************************************************************

Process

******************************************************************

Top memory using processs/application

PID %MEM RSS COMMAND

#with ps command we get list of processes,  awk show only needed columns. After with sort command we sort it by third column and we need only top 10, that why we used head command
`ps aux | awk ‘{print $2, $4, $6, $11}’ | sort -k3rn | head -n 10`

Top CPU using process/application

#with top command we get top CPU using processes, and with combination of head and tail we get top 10.
`top b -n1 | head -17 | tail -11`

**********************************************************************

Disk Usage – > Threshold < 90 Normal > 90% Caution > 95 Unhealthy

**********************************************************************

”
#we get disk usage with df command. -P key used to have postfix like output (there was problems with network shares, etc and -P resolve this problems). We print output to temp file to work with info more than one.
df -Pkh | grep -v ‘Filesystem’ > /tmp/df.status

#We create loop to process line by line from df.status
while read DISK

do

#here we get line from df.status and print result formatted with awk command
LINE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $1,”\t”,$6,”\t”,$5,” used”,”\t”,$4,” free space”}’`

echo -e $LINE

echo

done < /tmp/df.status

echo -e ”

Heath Status”

echo

#here almost same loop, but we check disk usage, and print Normal if value less 90, Caution if between 90 and 95, and Unhealthy if greater than 95)
while read DISK

do

USAGE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -f1 -d%`

if [ $USAGE -ge 95 ]

then

STATUS=’Unhealthy’

elif [ $USAGE -ge 90 ]

then

STATUS=’Caution’

else

STATUS=’Normal’

fi

LINE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $1,”\t”,$6}’`

#here we print result with status
echo -ne $LINE “\t\t” $STATUS

echo

done < /tmp/df.status

#here we remove df.status file
rm /tmp/df.status

#here we get Total Memory, Used Memory, Free Memory, Used Swap and Free Swap values and save them to variables.
TOTALMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $2}’`
#All variables like this is used to store values as float (we are using bc to make all mathematics operations, since without bc all values will be integer). Also we use if to add zero before value, if value less than 1024, and result of dividing will be less than 1.
TOTALBC=`echo “scale=2;if($TOTALMEM 0) print 0;$TOTALMEM/1024″| bc -l`
USEDMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $3}’`
USEDBC=`echo “scale=2;if($USEDMEM 0) print 0;$USEDMEM/1024″|bc -l`
FREEMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $4}’`
FREEBC=`echo “scale=2;if($FREEMEM 0) print 0;$FREEMEM/1024″|bc -l`

TOTALSWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $2}’`
TOTALSBC=`echo “scale=2;if($TOTALSWAP 0) print 0;$TOTALSWAP/1024″| bc -l`
USEDSWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $3}’`
USEDSBC=`echo “scale=2;if($USEDSWAP 0) print 0;$USEDSWAP/1024″|bc -l`
FREESWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $4}’`
FREESBC=`echo “scale=2;if($FREESWAP 0) print 0;$FREESWAP/1024″|bc -l`

echo -e ”

********************************************************************

Memory

********************************************************************

Physical Memory

Total\tUsed\tFree\t%Free

# as we get values in GB, also we get % of usage dividing Free by Total
${TOTALBC}GB\t${USEDBC}GB \t${FREEBC}GB\t$(($FREEMEM * 100 / $TOTALMEM ))%

Swap Memory

Total\tUsed\tFree\t%Free

#Same as above – values in GB, and in same way we get % of usage
${TOTALSBC}GB\t${USEDSBC}GB\t${FREESBC}GB\t$(($FREESWAP * 100 / $TOTALSWAP ))%
”

}

#here we make filename value, using hostname, and date.
FILENAME=”health-`hostname`-`date +%y%m%d`-`date +%H%M`.txt”

#here we run function and save result to generated filename
sysstat > $FILENAME

#here we print output to user.
echo -e “Reported file $FILENAME generated in current directory.” $RESULT

#here we check if user provide his email address to send email
if [ “$EMAIL” != ” ]

then

#if email proviced – we check if we have mailx command to send email
STATUS=`which mail`
#if mailx command not exist on system (previous command returned non-zero exit code we warn user that mailx is not installed
#!/bin/bash
EMAIL=”
function sysstat {
echo -e ”
#####################################################################
Health Check Report (CPU,Process,Disk Usage, Memory)
#####################################################################

Hostname         : `hostname`
Kernel Version   : `uname -r`
Uptime           : `uptime | sed ‘s/.*up \([^,]*\), .*/\1/’`
Last Reboot Time : `who -b | awk ‘{print $3,$4}’`

*********************************************************************
CPU Load – > Threshold < 1 Normal > 1 Caution , > 2 Unhealthy
*********************************************************************
”
MPSTAT=`which mpstat`
MPSTAT=$?
if [ $MPSTAT != 0 ] then
echo “Please install mpstat!”
echo “On Debian based systems:”
echo “sudo apt-get install sysstat”
echo “On RHEL based systems:”
echo “yum install sysstat”
else
echo -e “”
LSCPU=`which lscpu`
LSCPU=$?
if [ $LSCPU != 0 ] then
RESULT=$RESULT” lscpu required to producre acqurate reults”
else
cpus=`lscpu | grep -e “^CPU(s):” | cut -f2 -d: | awk ‘{print $1}’`
i=0
while [ $i -lt $cpus ] do
echo “CPU$i : `mpstat -P ALL | awk -v var=$i ‘{ if ($3 == var ) print $4 }’ `”
let i=$i+1
done
fi
echo -e ”
Load Average   : `uptime | awk -F’load average:’ ‘{ print $2 }’ | cut -f1 -d,`

Heath Status : `uptime | awk -F’load average:’ ‘{ print $2 }’ | cut -f1 -d, | awk ‘{if ($1 > 2) print “Unhealthy”; else if ($1 > 1) print “Caution”; else print “Normal”}’`
”
fi
echo -e ”
*********************************************************************
Process
*********************************************************************

=> Top memory using processs/application

PID %MEM RSS COMMAND
`ps aux | awk ‘{print $2, $4, $6, $11}’ | sort -k3rn | head -n 10`

=> Top CPU using process/application
`top b -n1 | head -17 | tail -11`

*********************************************************************
Disk Usage – > Threshold < 90 Normal > 90% Caution > 95 Unhealthy
*********************************************************************
”
df -Pkh | grep -v ‘Filesystem’ > /tmp/df.status
while read DISK
do
LINE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $1,”\t”,$6,”\t”,$5,” used”,”\t”,$4,” free space”}’`
echo -e $LINE
echo
done < /tmp/df.status
echo -e ”

Heath Status”
echo
while read DISK
do
USAGE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -f1 -d%`
if [ $USAGE -ge 95 ] then
STATUS=’Unhealty’
elif [ $USAGE -ge 90 ] then
STATUS=’Caution’
else
STATUS=’Normal’
fi

LINE=`echo $DISK | awk ‘{print $1,”\t”,$6}’`
echo -ne $LINE “\t\t” $STATUS
echo
done < /tmp/df.status
rm /tmp/df.status
TOTALMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $2}’`
TOTALBC=`echo “scale=2;if($TOTALMEM<1024 && $TOTALMEM > 0) print 0;$TOTALMEM/1024″| bc -l`
USEDMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $3}’`
USEDBC=`echo “scale=2;if($USEDMEM<1024 && $USEDMEM > 0) print 0;$USEDMEM/1024″|bc -l`
FREEMEM=`free -m | head -2 | tail -1| awk ‘{print $4}’`
FREEBC=`echo “scale=2;if($FREEMEM<1024 && $FREEMEM > 0) print 0;$FREEMEM/1024″|bc -l`
TOTALSWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $2}’`
TOTALSBC=`echo “scale=2;if($TOTALSWAP<1024 && $TOTALSWAP > 0) print 0;$TOTALSWAP/1024″| bc -l`
USEDSWAP=`free -m | tail -1| awk ‘{print $3}’`
USEDSBC=`echo “scale=2;if($USEDSWAP<1024 && $USEDSWAP > 0) print 0;$USEDSWAP/1024″|bc -l`
FREESWAP=`free -m |  tail -1| awk ‘{print $4}’`
FREESBC=`echo “scale=2;if($FREESWAP<1024 && $FREESWAP > 0) print 0;$FREESWAP/1024″|bc -l`

echo -e ”
*********************************************************************
Memory
*********************************************************************

=> Physical Memory

Total\tUsed\tFree\t%Free

${TOTALBC}GB\t${USEDBC}GB \t${FREEBC}GB\t$(($FREEMEM * 100 / $TOTALMEM  ))%

=> Swap Memory

Total\tUsed\tFree\t%Free

${TOTALSBC}GB\t${USEDSBC}GB\t${FREESBC}GB\t$(($FREESWAP * 100 / $TOTALSWAP  ))%
”
}
FILENAME=”health-`hostname`-`date +%y%m%d`-`date +%H%M`.txt”
sysstat > $FILENAME
echo -e “Reported file $FILENAME generated in current directory.” $RESULT
if [ “$EMAIL” != ” ] then
STATUS=`which mail`
if [ “$?” != 0 ] then
echo “The program ‘mail’ is currently not installed.”
else
cat $FILENAME | mail -s “$FILENAME” $EMAIL
fi
fi
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