On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Harold <thomas-li...@nybeta.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2011 10:03 AM, Roger Goh wrote: >> >> There's often problem with our postfix mail server (that runs Cyrus >> / Cyrus-imapd) : >> >> I have scripts (using mutt) to send hourly mails out (& from >> another postfix server, I can send mails to it). >> >> I need a way / method such that if those hourly test mails were >> never sent out or received, I'll need to be alerted. Let me know the >> freeware tools& method to go about doing this? >> > > Look into a monitoring solution like Nagios, Cacti, etc. You'll want to > communicate failure of the email system over some non-mail communication > channel (such as Jabber/XMPP alerts).
Ok, now completely OT, but we're looking at replacing our Nagios solution with Zabbix. If you want to call your system "production", then it needs to be monitored.
