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Re: Postfix Monitoring

From: Mike Bobkiewicz (pflistein.reproheinatz.de)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 06:21:13 CST


Hi Linux Addict,
Linux Addict schrieb:
> Hello there, I have postfix setup up and running. We are going to a
> very very critical mail box to the setup. I am looking for a best
> monitoring method(I have nagios) so that we dont miss any mails.
>
> Along with regular metrics like monitoring port 25, health check of
> mysql, mail queue and so on, I want to..
>
> 1.send and receive a test mail to the mailbox every 5 minutes, if not
> trigger a alert
> 2. If the mailbox messages count reach certain no, then trigger a alarm.
>
> What I am looking from the group is the best practices to monitor a
> critical mailbox and how to achieve the above two items.
>
while I hadn´t implemted such a setup now I would say try Zabbix if
you´re not stuck too much with Nagios. You can nearly add any function
you can think of. Actually I think you want to send the mail to an
external mail server? Otherwise Zabbix also has some tools to test if a
service is responding or not.

> Thank you very much.
>
> ~LA