try using spong (Son of Pong), it works great for us here: checking upness,
services (http, ftp,...) disk space,... everything you want (if you know
perl).
Franky
> ----------
> From: Samuel Dries-Daffner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Samuel Dries-Daffner
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 5:43 PM
> To: Greg Moeller
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How to monitor qmail-send and friends?
>
>
> What I would do is monitor the queue using qmail-qstat or one of the other
> utilities like it. Perhaps a good idea would be to check for a number of
> messages you think is too high, and if the queue has the same or greater
> messages within x timeframe then send the page.
>
> Can you share some of the scripts you use for paging? We use one called
> 'checknet' that was written here...it does a cycle of pings across our
> network, then it prioritizes which sytems, hubs, etc and pages with the ip
> addresses of the non-responsive item. We are interested in moving to a
> paging system that checks services, not just network 'upness'.
>
> Samuel Daffner
> Mills College ITS
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Greg Moeller wrote:
>
> > We're running a fairly big Qmail site and have all essential services
> > monitored with paging and such. (SMTP, POP, PING, all that)
> >
> > Now, what happened last night was that qmail-send got stuck.
> > Everything else was working perfectly, just the Email wasn't being sent
> > anywhere. The only way we noticed it was clients complaining about not
> > getting any mail they knew was sent. When I checked the system, the
> queue was
> > at over 500 Meg.
> > Telling qmail-send to quit didn't help, nor did a regular kill of it, I
> > eventually had to kill -9 the process. When I started it up again, all
> was
> > fine.
> >
> > The question is how best to monitor that qmail-send is alive and well?
> > All the processes were there, just not doing anything.
> >
> > Ideas anyone?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
>
>
