Problems with SMTP and Nagios

Karl DeBisschop karl at debisschop.net
Thu Feb 27 01:12:13 CET 2003


On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:04, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
> At 12:45 26.02.2003 +0100, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
> >Yesterday I built a new sendmail.cf file and added certain features such 
> >as spam blocking. I also got the .cf file upgraded to the latest v.8.12.7. 
> >Since those upgrades/changes were made I'm getting PROBLEM-Notifications 
> >from Nagios (via mail) like this:
> >
> >Subject: ** PROBLEM alert - Myserver/SMTP is CRITICAL **
> >
> >Notification Type: PROBLEM
> >
> >Service: SMTP
> >Host: Myserver
> >Address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> >State: CRITICAL
> >
> >Date/Time: Wed Feb 26 12:03:14 CET 2003
> >
> >Additional Info:
> >
> >Socket timeout after 10 seconds
> >
> >In the /var/log/maillog I see the following when Nagios is reporting problems:
> >
> >Feb 26 12:19:22 myserver sendmail[53651]: h1QBI13F053651: 
> >mynagios.domain.com [212.125.232.195] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN 
> >during connection to MTA
> >
> >Anyone seen this before and perhaps have a way to fix it?
> 
> 
> Forgot to add, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE with the latest Nagios, plus 
> Sendmail 8.12.6/8.12.7.

What we needed, I suspect, was the plugin verion. I suspect it is not
the most recent. Try 1.3.0-beta3

--
Karl



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