monitor postfix queue with SNMP

Elmehdi Bendriss

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Dec 28, 2006, 5:59:49 PM12/28/06

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hello,
is there any information on howto monitor postfix queue using
SNMP, specially sending TRAPs after a threshold.
thank you
B.R

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James Turnbull

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Dec 28, 2006, 6:26:51 PM12/28/06

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Elmehdi Bendriss wrote:
> hello,
> is there any information on howto monitor postfix queue using
> SNMP, specially sending TRAPs after a threshold.
> thank you
> B.R
>
>

Very crudely? Dump the results of the mailq or qshape commands into a
script (shell/perl/etc), test against a threshold and send traps via the
snmptrap command from NetSNMP.

If you use something like Nagios you can find a HOWTO here:

http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Using_Nagios_with_SNMP

Regards

James Turnbull

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Ralf Hildebrandt

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Dec 29, 2006, 3:46:50 AM12/29/06

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* Elmehdi Bendriss <bend...@gmail.com>:

> hello,
> is there any information on howto monitor postfix queue using
> SNMP, specially sending TRAPs after a threshold.

You can adapt queuegraph

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Bjørn Ruberg

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Dec 29, 2006, 1:02:37 PM12/29/06

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Elmehdi Bendriss wrote:
> hello,
> is there any information on howto monitor postfix queue using
> SNMP, specially sending TRAPs after a threshold.

You could try out Munin (http://munin.sf.net/). It's a monitoring
framework where something like this is easily implemented. While it's
probably overkill if queue monitoring is all you want, you might find it
useful for other monitoring tasks as well.

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Michael Schwartzkopff

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Dec 29, 2006, 1:25:22 PM12/29/06

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net-snmp has a possibility to exec scripts via SNMP queueries. You could do
this to get queue information.

Another feature of net-snmp is logfile monitoring (logmatch). You can count
occuranes of regexp in logfiles. I use this to count SPAM, virii, "sent,
greylisted, RBL, ... Gives nice graphes in cacti ;-)

Michael.

Elmehdi Bendriss

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Dec 29, 2006, 8:13:27 PM12/29/06

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thanks all for your answers

On 12/29/06, Bjørn Ruberg <bj...@ruberg.no> wrote:

> Elmehdi Bendriss wrote:
> > hello,
> > is there any information on howto monitor postfix queue using
> > SNMP, specially sending TRAPs after a threshold.
>

> You could try out Munin (http://munin.sf.net/). It's a monitoring
> framework where something like this is easily implemented. While it's
> probably overkill if queue monitoring is all you want, you might find it
> useful for other monitoring tasks as well.
>

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> Bjørn
>

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