Re: [Nagios-users] What to Monitor

2007-02-18 Thread Steve Shipway

 So far I have monitors running on the host's responding to pings, to 
 load average, and to the mail queue.  Anything else anyone 
 can suggest 
 that I monitor?  I've only got three or four mailservers, so I don't 
 mind going a smidgen overboard on their monitoring...

We also monitor -

CPU, Memory, filesystems, load average, swap activity, mail queues
(active and deferred), mail throughput in messages/min (passed, spam,
virus) plus a detailed analysis of the virus types and spam rules,
greylisting activity and database size, tcp ports for each mail input
and relay stage, SMTPS SSL certificate expiry, active users, active
connections, time taken for a test email to pass through the system,
number of mail processes (postfix, amavis, gld), virus scanner daemons,
mail cluster activity, performance, and failover.

Plus most of this is also graphed where possible.

Steve

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[Nagios-users] What to Monitor

2007-02-17 Thread Jay Chandler
I'm primarily responsible for mailservers at my site.

So far I have monitors running on the host's responding to pings, to 
load average, and to the mail queue.  Anything else anyone can suggest 
that I monitor?  I've only got three or four mailservers, so I don't 
mind going a smidgen overboard on their monitoring...

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Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today's Excuse: A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN. 


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Re: [Nagios-users] What to Monitor

2007-02-17 Thread Sébastien Barbereau

tpc port state
service answer
mailqueueS (amount of mails per mail queue, size of mailqueueS) = depends
on your smtp software

disk space
number of smtp processes
number of AV/anti-spam and related processes
number of open ports on the host
log file
DNS service behabiors (resolv working or cache OK)

of course there are also all other system related services which may be
running on the servers: snmpd, sshd, traffic on interface,...



On 2/17/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I'm primarily responsible for mailservers at my site.

So far I have monitors running on the host's responding to pings, to
load average, and to the mail queue.  Anything else anyone can suggest
that I monitor?  I've only got three or four mailservers, so I don't
mind going a smidgen overboard on their monitoring...

--
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today's Excuse: A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN.


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