Parsing Logs

[Richard Lynch]

I¹m just a Nagios-Newbie, but it seems like with all the tools in Nagios;
escalation, flapping, etc you ought to be able to use check_smtp to provide
a pretty good idea of whether the SMTP connection is really up, or really
down, over a period of time, without resorting to grepping log files...


On 5/4/10 4:57 AM, "Stephen H. Dawson" <service at shdawson.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>  
> We have looked at the check_smtp option to meet our need, but do not believe
> this option will work.  Looking for perhaps another option.
>  
> Failure of an SMTP connection to our ISP's mail server with Nagios will only
> tell us that the Nagios attempt to connect has failed, at that particular
> point in time.  We are running our Nagios box on CentOS.  The CentOS attempt
> itself could well connect and send a message a few seconds/minutes before or
> after that.  We also run the risk of being accused of 'excessive' number of
> emails with our ISP's email server.
> So the only reliable way of checking if ISP SMTP relay connection works is to
> parse the CentOS logs and look for failures to authenticate/send.
> 
> Has anyone parsed a log for review with Nagios?  If so, please advise.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> SHD
> 
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