Re: [Bigsister-general] Monitoring sendmailqueue

["Peter Varlien" <suppressed>]

Yes,

Check the "statusfile" monitor.

It is for just this purpose.

Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "little" <suppressed>
To: "BigSister" <suppressed>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Bigsister-general] Monitoring sendmailqueue


> But is there also a way that you call a script in the cron  "ls
> /var/spool/mqueue | wc -l > mailqueuvalue"  and then monitor the
> mailqueuevalue with bigsister ?
> For example if mailqueuevalue is  <1000=green  between 1000-1500= yellow
> and >1500= red ?
>
>
> Peter Varlien wrote:
>
> >If you search the bigsister-devel list archives, you will find a "proper"
> >test implementation of a sendmail queue monitor, including generation of
> >performance data for graphing.
> >
> >Mind you, it doesn't work correctly with the latest versions of sendmail,
at
> >least not if you have configured a separate submission process.
> >
> >I have an experimental fix for that, but it may be Debian GNU/Linux
> >specific.
> >
> >The method you are attempting should also work. I'm doing something
similar,
> >to check for messages my email virus scanner has blocked. My definition
> >looks like this:
> >
> >localhost       exec="echo -e '&html\n<hr><pre>';ls -1
> >/var/spool/avmilter/rejected;echo '</pre>'" \
> >                results="[dv]f\-.*:yellow:&yellow Rejected messages
> >found;*:green:&green No rejected messages" \
> >                item=mail       command
> >The echo stuff is because the entire output of the ls is included in the
> >"long comment", and I wanted a horizontal line as a separator from the
other
> >stuff I have going to the "mail" column.
> >
> >Peter
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "little" <suppressed>
> >To: "BigSister" <suppressed>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:53 AM
> >Subject: [Bigsister-general] Monitoring sendmailqueue
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>We are trying to monitor our sendmailqueue's.
> >>We've already tried it with the exec and command. (running a script that
> >>does a ls /var/spool/mqueue |wc -l )and then monitor the value that
> >>comes out of that.
> >>Sofar we didn't had any luck on this (uxmon is complaining that it
> >>doesn't know any "command")
> >>
> >>Is there anybody that has any luck on this?
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Maarten
> >>
> >>
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