Mailscanner stats

[Randy Herban]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Howat [mailto:t.howat at LINST.AC.UK] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Mailscanner stats
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm currently building a mailscanner solution for our
> mail relays. High volume, and we need regular statistics.
> I've looked at mrtg-mailscanner in relation to our system,
> and as far as I can see it would have to run locally on the 
> mail relay itself - or we'll run across some awful network 
> load issues as our network management server grabs logs every 
> so often etc.
> 
> We could also do with regular summary stats by e-mail.
> 
> So, any suggestions on remotely mrtg logging of mailscanner, 
> and/or extracting simple text stats? I'm not keen on 
> re-inventing the wheel :)
> 
> In essence, priorty one is useful stats, priority two is
> pretty graphs for people to point at.
> 
> What solutions do you guys and gals use?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> --
> Tony Howat
> UNIX Network Administrator
> The London Institute
> 

Might be a good idea if you investigate a central syslog server.
Set your mail server up to send all of its logs to another server.  Have
the second server handle the mailstats and/or mrtg stuff.

For mailstats, I had to remove a couple of things (like getting the
current mailqueue) but was not major surgery on the scripts.

I also have my mrtg graphs ssh into my mail cluster so I can graph the
incoming and outgoing queues for trends.

Randy