> However, it what you really want to know is if the entire mail flow is
> working, I'm a fan of having procmail look for trigger messages and send
> a passive check result to Nagios when it sees one. A cron job can be
> set up to send mail on a regular basis, and the check can then
> be configur
On Wed, 05 May 2010, Richard Lynch wrote:
> I?m just a Nagios-Newbie, but it seems like with all the tools in Nagios;
> escalation, flapping, etc you ought to be able to use check_smtp to provide a
> pretty good idea of whether the SMTP connection is really up, or really down,
> over a period o
I¹m just a Nagios-Newbie, but it seems like with all the tools in Nagios;
escalation, flapping, etc you ought to be able to use check_smtp to provide
a pretty good idea of whether the SMTP connection is really up, or really
down, over a period of time, without resorting to grepping log files...
O
Thank You,
SHD
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From: Jelle Smet [mailto:nag...@smetj.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 05:31 E/T
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Parsing Logs
Stephen H. Dawson shdawson.com> writes:
Hi Stephen,
> Has anyone parsed a log for
> re
Stephen H. Dawson shdawson.com> writes:
Hi Stephen,
> Has anyone parsed a log for
> review with Nagios? If so, please advise.
This is a shameless self promotion but http://www.smetj.net/wiki/Molog might be
helpfull for you.
Jelle Smet.
--
Stephen
Most email systems move messages to a retry queue if the first attempt at
sending fails.
If your email does something like that you can just write a simple script to
check whether
it is empty or not and return a status to Nagios. There might be a genuine
reason why
the first send fails
Hi,
We have looked at the check_smtp option to meet our need, but do not believe
this option will work. Looking for perhaps another option.
Failure of an SMTP connection to our ISP's mail server with Nagios will only
tell us that the Nagios attempt to connect has failed, at that particular
