The mrtg make it easier to tune a email system. You can tell which hubs are
being overload and which ones are not. btw qmail-mrtg-1.1 is going to
contain abunch more graphs (CPU utilization, Load Averages, pop connections,
smtp connections).. As for logs right now, on some of my customers systems I
am using a expermintal multilog that logs everything to a oracle(or mysql)
database so that management can run their crystal reports wizard..
Sean Truman
www.prodigysolutions.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dale Miracle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: qmail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 9:54 PM
Subject: RE: Logs - rotate, archive... ?
> > last sent a message to that address so it wasn't to hard to find. I
> > haven't used a report program on them what type of reports can you get?
>
> There are two reporting programs that I know of. qmail-mrtg (v0.1 and then
> v1.0, developed by different people I think but still the same project),
and
> qmailanalog. qmailanalog offers a lot of text-based information but from
my
> first looks at it, it didn't really summarise things up quite as neatly as
> qmail-mrtg, and it works in a text-based interface anyway so without
> creating a few scripts to make it a bit 'prettier', management would have
> just said 'so what'. qmail-mrtg on the other hand offers daily, weekly,
> monthly and yearly graphs (via the web).
>
> Reports that may be generated (in one or the other) include number of
> messages transferred, number of bytes transferred, remote and local
> concurrency, statistics on who is sending and receiving e-mail through
your
> relay (qmailanalog), number of successes and failures, size of the queue
> (very good on a mailing list machine)...
>
> Our main benefit with logging is to show management how costs and needs
are
> increasing over time so we can obtain a little (lot? :> ) more money from
> them in our department (BTW my sig says Manager IPS, but this is my own
> entity not who I work for).
>
> /BR
>
> Manager
> InterPlanetary Solutions
> http://ipsware.com/
