I want to get average idle time of the server using mpstat. The problem I am having is %idle is not in same columns in all the versions of linux.
example 1:
example 2:
I tried below command as generalized solution but as Average as one less column output is not proper.
I am getting below output.
But the desired output is
Thanks
Aia
2
See if this will do what you want.
mpstat 1 2 | awk '
/%idle/ {for(i=1; i<=NF; i++){if($i=="%idle"){idle=i;break}}}
$1 ~ /^(0[0-9]|1[12]):/ {print $idle;next}
$1 ~ /Average/ {print $(idle -1)} '