Like I said previously, monitoring isn't high on my list at this time.
That being said, I'd would like (probably in conjunction with isoqlog or
equivalent upgrade) to collect anonymous statistics from volunteer QMT
hosts, which would be published at the QMT site. This data would be
absolutely anonymous, and would show numbers of hosts, domains, users,
and mail activity. Anonymity can be provided by using sha1 keys for
sensitive data (host names and email addresses). The numbers can show
trends (hopefully upward) of QMT usage, as well as examples of capacity,
and perhaps even point to performance problems. Anonymous data such as
cpuinfo, mem, config settings, etc can be included as well. This can all
be pretty easily automated with a new qtp script or two. I have ideas
about how it might be done, and I expect others do as well.
I also really liked the looks of the graphs that Martin put together of
the wiki site soon after it was migrated to a host of his:
http://mirror.qmailtoaster.de/awstats/
I'd like to see something equivalent for QMT. I've no idea what's out
there presently, but I do know that I think mrtg-toaster and
isoqlog-toaster can stand some improvements.
Martin also put together some traffic monitoring software about 18
months ago:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.qmail.toaster/31499/match=monitor+accounting
I've no idea what that does or the shape it's presently in.
Whatever we do, let's not reinvent the wheel. I'm sure there are many
good things which can be brought together to provide improved monitoring
and measuring of QMT performance. I would like whoever tackles this part
of QMT (and it's presently up for grabs) to approach it in a
comprehensive fashion.
As a good bit of this (processing stats) is driven by logs, I think it'd
be best if anything developed in this area was built based on rsyslogd
logs, as that's what I expect QMT will be using eventually. If we get
the reporting software built on rsyslogd, having it might be the push we
need at the time to get rsyslogd implemented. Who knows.
Just wanted to get these ideas out there. Have at it, folks.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
On 03/30/2012 12:30 PM, Cecil Yother, Jr. wrote:
It has an alert script option. I am not using it yet so I don't know
exactly how it works.
On 03/30/2012 11:43 AM, Carlos Herrera Polo wrote:
Thanks.
Monitorix can send alerts by sms or email ?
2012/3/30, Cecil Yother, Jr.<c...@yother.com>:
FWIW, I've tried both Cacti and Nagios. Monitorix is so much easier to
setup, and easier to read IMHO. Simple and effective.
On 03/30/2012 11:23 AM, Toni Cosma wrote:
And why not Cacti ? :)))
Tonis
On 30.03.2012, at 20:57, Carlos Herrera Polo
<carlos.herrerap...@gmail.com<mailto:carlos.herrerap...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Eric,
Have you tried nagios ?
2012/3/30 Cecil Yother, Jr.<c...@yother.com<mailto:c...@yother.com>>
On 03/30/2012 10:19 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
On 03/30/2012 09:30 AM, Maxwell Smart wrote:
Eric,
I have installed Monitorix on my two toasters, but Qmail
is not supported. I have one server that may have
detected a bug and have been in contact with the software
developer and he said he would gladly support Qmail if
the statistical data was available. I assured him it
was, even though I am not entirely sure.
Have you seen or used this software? Would you like to
include Monitorix or the developer Jordi Sanfeliu in the
project?
CJ
I have had a look at Monitorix, and had it running at one
point. I was interested in it for monitoring multiple VMs. I
like the graphs and web interface. I don't like that it
requires the whole kit and kaboodle (apache etc) on each
machine that's being monitored. I like the architecture of
ganglia much better, although ganglia is geared toward
clusters to begin with. I did chat online with Jordi briefly
at that time. No mention was made of QMT though that I recall.
collectl is presently my monitor of choice. I was looking for
something which would show me i/o usage per process, and
collectl can. It's a pretty impressive piece of software, and
it's lean on resources.
Monitoring is something I'd like to address with QMT at some
point, but it's still a back burner item. If Jordi would like
to provide us with something that would be an optional
package at this point though, he's more than welcome to join
the devel list, where we could assist with his efforts.
Thanks for bringing this up, CJ.
I will mention it, and leave it up to him. What is the address
to join the devel team?
CJ
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