Re: [Nagios-users] What to Monitor
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 -- Steve Shipway ITSS, University of Auckland (09) 3737 599 x 86487 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] What to Monitor
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. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] What to Monitor
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. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null