MailScanner & Zenoss

[Julian Field]

Just seen your posting on the zenoss forums about this. All the 
MailScanner process names start with
    MailScanner:
so can't you just look for that instead of a complete line?
Zenoss must have the same problem with sendmail, as that does the same 
thing I do, change the ps listing depending on what it's doing. Any 
monitoring package that can't monitor something as common as sendmail is 
surely pretty broken :-(

Jules.

UxBoD wrote:
> Steve,
>
> The problem is that even though Zenoss can use regex and detect all instances of MailScanner running, but even with the parent process changing its description line it can sometimes see it as a failure.  Basically what it is doing is grabbing the process list from the SNMP tree.
>
> May have to write a zenoss script to do it, which is a pain, as clamd, postfix etc are all okay.  Perhaps if MailScanner kept its parent process static with respect to the name ie. MailScanner and the child processes can report their own state.
>
> I would imagine that this could also occur on other monitoring systems IMHO.
>
> Regards,
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Freegard" <steve.freegard at fsl.com>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 3:23:03 PM (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: Re: MailScanner & Zenoss
>
> UxBoD wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is anybody using Zenoss to monitor MailScanner ? The issue I am having is that due to MailScanner showing its current state on the process line ie. Checking with SpamAssassin, Waiting for Messages there is no one process line to check and ensure MailScanner is running.
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>     
>
> How about:
>
> [root at mail soaplite]# ps axf | grep `cat /var/run/MailScanner.pid` | 
> grep -v grep
>    889 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children, 
> sleeping
>
> Cheers,
> Steve.
>   

Jules

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