how to check everything is working

[Kevin Miller]

We're using openNMS to monitor our servers and switches.  Works great, but you have to invest the time to set it up.  Probably not much work for just a couple hosts.  Lots of work for dozens of servers, switches, routers etc.  But worth it...


...Kevin
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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Eduardo Casarero
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:13 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: OT: how to check everything is working

Hi, i've just had an strange scenario, on one of my servers cent os the I/O controller just stoped working, and all FS went to Read Only. I actually check this:

sendmail online
mailscanner online
load
disk usage
clamav pattern
ram/swap used
incomming messages waiting

this is reported to a mysql and showed in a webpage.

the problem is that this was working, but the server started rejecting all emails with a 421 error "Can't write to the disk" so all trafic went to the second MTA. so nobody realised that the server was down...

I started a google search and i found this "mailping" http://mailping.sourceforge.net/ but it seems to be a dead project.

so is anyone using something like this? or has any idea?

Regards

Eduardo
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