question

[Jeff McKeon]

Jeremy,

actually it's a long story but it's a home grown smtp server for use
over satellite connections.  Our company provides email services with a
proprietary software over sat.  Right now we have our support people
watching the servers 24/7 for problems.  On of the key indicators they
watch is the mail queue.  If I had a plugin to alert them when the
number of messages that are queued gets too high, then they could get
more sleep.  

the plugin actually just needs to monitor the number of files in a
directory.  This might also be good for seeing when log files pile up or
anything of that nature.

In my particular situation, the files are stored in a samba share on a
linux box until the smtp server makes a connection and then retrieves
them.

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:36, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> 	That actually sounds like a useful plugin... I may just start
> trying to work on one... Course it would need to run locally so would
> need to either be called through check_by_ssh or using NRPE...
> 
> 	One question I have for you would be what MTA are you running
> and do you make use of a MSP? I my case I'm using Sendmail and I do run
> both a MTA and MSP so I have 2 queues to monitor on about 6 MX
> machines...
> 
> 	Jeremy
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:40:30PM -0500, Jeff McKeon wrote:
> > is it possible with nagios to check a directory on a remote linux system
> > to see how many files are there and report an error if the number grows
> > above a certain level?  I'm trying to monitor when a mail que builds up.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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