Nagios monitor Sendmail instances

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Eduardo Casarero
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:53 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Nagios monitor Sendmail instances
> 
> hi, i do monitor sendmail with an script that cheks the pid of both
> sendmail on a ps -ax an tell me if they are up or down.
> 
> 
> 2006/9/25, Ugo Bellavance < ugob at camo-route.com <mailto:ugob at camo-
> route.com> >:
> 
> 	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
> 

Can't you look for the /var/run/: sendmail.in.pid and sendmail.out.pid and
make sure these processes are running?

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com