Mail Queue monitor?

[Ugo Bellavance]

Rob Morin wrote:
> Thats a cool script, however i wanted to NOT use Nagios and such,  as i 
> need to run this on a remote machine, as Nagios uses my mailserver to 
> send email, if mail is backed up i will not get the alert.... so i 
> figure i have a secondary email server that i would run an ssh command 
> and check the queue on the primary, if it does not respond or is high i 
> would then email  to a pager on that remote machine that the queue is 
> high...

Use the escalation feature of nagios to send to your pager.  Please 
contact me directly if you need help.

I also have a custom plugin for checking inbound mail queue length.

Ugo

> 
> am i confusing anyone yet?
> 
> :)
> 
> Rob Morin
> Dido InterNet Inc.
> Montreal, Canada
> Http://www.dido.ca
> 514-990-4444
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Maher wrote:
>> If you've already got SNMP deployed, you can query it using any number 
>> of open source network monitoring tools (such as Nagios or Big Brother).
>>
>> In order to obtain the result in the first place, though, you'll need 
>> a script to generate a number that SNMP can report.  Consider the 
>> attached script, in fact, which can check either the "hold" or 
>> "incoming" queues, as you like.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>   _
>>  °v°  Daniel Maher
>> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
>>  ^ ^  Unix System Administrator
>>  
>> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
>>
>>  
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Rob Morin
>>> Sent: August 16, 2006 11:22 AM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Mail Queue monitor?
>>>
>>> Is ther a script i can use to monitor teh mail queue on my postfix
>>> system, and i fits over a certain amount email me or page me....
>>>
>>> So every 5  or 10 mins this script would run and if the email in the
>>> queue is over 100 send an email to a pager...
>>>
>>> I guess i would have to run this command from an external machine via
>>> ssh as i figure if i run it locally and the queue is big i would never
>>> get the email?
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>
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>>>
>>> Rob Morin
>>> Dido InterNet Inc.
>>> Montreal, Canada
>>> Http://www.dido.ca
>>> 514-990-4444
>>>
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