RRD Tool - Was MRTG

[Daniel Bird]

Just a thought,
is any one using RRD Tool (also from Tobias) for monitoring of in/out
messages/spam/viruses?..Since you can plot multiple graphs along the
same time axis.

rgrds

Dan

Rose, Bobby wrote:

>Oops yeh I forgot about that one.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:56 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MRTG
>
>
>I found one problem:  The process changed from 'mailscanner' to
>'MailScanner', so now my spams are being picked up.  Viruses are not
>however.  One thing I noticed in grepping the log is that Viruses that
>are detected are being listed twice:
>
>[root at redline bin]# cat /var/log/maillog |grep ">>> Virus"
>Sep 30 11:10:39 redline MailScanner[18225]: >>> Virus 'W32/Klez-H' found
>in file ./g8UGAXv19493/install.exe Sep 30 11:10:42 redline
>MailScanner[18225]: >>> Virus 'W32/Klez-H' found in file
>./g8UGAXv19493/install.exe Sep 30 14:21:15 redline MailScanner[18225]:
>
>
>>>>Virus 'W32/Bugbear-A' found in file ./g8UJLBv25275/BIRTHDAYS.xls.exe
>>>>
>>>>
>Sep 30 14:21:18 redline MailScanner[18225]: >>> Virus 'W32/Bugbear-A'
>found in file ./g8UJLBv25275/BIRTHDAYS.xls.exe Sep 30 16:17:15 redline
>MailScanner[28976]: >>> Virus 'W32/Klez-H' found in file
>./g8ULH5v28971/CAYRKX0V.scr Sep 30 16:17:17 redline MailScanner[28976]:
>
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>>>>Virus 'W32/Klez-H' found in file ./g8ULH5v28971/CAYRKX0V.scr
>>>>
>>>>
>
>Will that not throw the count off by a multiple of 2?
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Mike Kercher
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:39 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MRTG
>
>
>Hrm...that doesn't seem to be working for me...
>
>    chomp;
>    if (/sendmail/) {
>      $TotalMails += $1 if /nrcpts=(\d+),/;
>      next;
>    }
>    if (/mailscanner/) {
>      $TotalViruses += $1 if />>> Virus/i;
>      $TotalSpam++        if /actions are deliver/i;
>    }
>  }
>  close LOG;
>}
>
>Does that look like what you have?
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Rose, Bobby
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:24 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MRTG
>
>
>The logging has changed so you need to change string used to the regex
>the sendmail.logs.pl script. I'm currently using
>
>/actions are deliver/I for Spam and  />>> Virus/I for Viruses.  So far
>that seems to be correct.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:06 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MRTG
>
>
>They used to be before I upgraded to 4.00  When I have some time, I'll
>try to figure out why it's not working anymore.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Matt
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:59 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MRTG
>
>
>
>
>>I have it running at http://bladeware.com/  I haven't tweaked it since
>>
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>>moving to v4.00 so for some reason, my Spam and Virus stats are out of
>>
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>>date.  The mail is working though :)
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>
>I think it would be neat to have the SPAM and virus stats in the same
>graph. Kind of like a T1 is graphed with upstream in one color and
>downstream in another.
>
>Matt
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