Looking for a Nagios plugin to alarm on mgs in mailbox

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Andrey Dmitriev wrote:

> Is there are a Nagios Plugin that could check let's say a POP account, and
> if email arrives it would start utilizing its escalation mechanism?
>
> E.g. we have certain alerts coming from ArcServ backup failures, or emails
> from raid managers, or from disk arrays.. basically devices that are not
> possible to be monitored by nagios directly.
>
> Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

This is not a recipy. But a global thought on how to do this:

See if you put sort of script action to these messages. Something like 
procmail might be able to select the proper messages for this.

Define passive services.

Use the scripts to set the status of these passive checks.


Another approach might be to use snmptraps. I think most of these device 
should be able to use snmptraps.

Hugo.

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