Nagios monitor Sendmail instances

[Daniel Maher]

I don't use sendmail, but the first solution that comes to mind is to write a small bash script that does a "pidof sendmail", and then checks to see how many pids it gets back (two, preferably ;)).

Just define a custom OID in snmpd.conf, then have Nagios poll it.  Done and done.  If you're not using snmpd (hey, it happens), then you're probably using NRPE, in which case you can just define it as a custom trigger there.

Bonne chance. :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: September 25, 2006 5:57 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Nagios monitor Sendmail instances
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	With a MailScanner setup, there are 2 Sendmail instances.  Anyone
> figured out how to monitor both with nagios?
> 
> 	From what I can see, both instances use the same process name
> (sendmail) and it is only in their status and PID that they differ.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ugo
> 
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