I have done both. I use net-snmp's 'extend' for graphing Postfix data. FYI - I'm using key based authentication into a non-privileged account to execute the script.
> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:01 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IMHO putting hardcoded credentials into an NMS that allows it to ssh into a > bind server is a lot more risky than usign snmpd, snmp "extend" and polling > your new custom created OIDs. > > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Josh Baird <joshba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Are you talking about something like this? >> >> <image.png> >> >> You need to figure out how to get the data *out* of BIND. Newer versions >> expose a statistics channel via XML that you can use to get data like this. >> For the graph above, my NMS (Zenoss 4) SSH's into each DNS server and >> executes a little custom script that I wrote which returns Nagios-ish style >> data: >> >> OK|success=1022736319 referral=339 nxrrset=93439175 nxdomain=163271953 >> recursion=373732835 failure=18408551 duplicate=13564673 dropped=0 >> numzones=143 recursiveclients=2 rtt10=278 rtt10_100=430614909 >> rtt100_500=52986868 rtt500_800=75607 rtt1600=989 >> >> Zenoss then uses this data to produce the graph that I pasted above. >> >>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:43 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm >>> <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Im using DNSTOP to monitor real time activity on these servers I made live >>> (interesting to see just how perverse some of our customers are) but is >>> there a good tool for monitoring visually statistics, queries, cache, >>> errors, etc that doesnt involve building yet another server to monitor >>> these? >>> >>> -- >>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as >>> part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >
