<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Marki <<a href="mailto:jm%2Bnagios-users@roth.lu">jm+nagios-users@roth.lu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hey there, is there a recommended way of monitoring batch jobs when the only kind-of log available are mails sent by each part of the job? </blockquote><div> In the batchfile you could add a status output to an external file, which is then checked by Nagios. Probably the easiest way to do this. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> In that case one should also find out if a certain mail was NOT sent, i.e. has not arrived in a certain timeperiod. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> While all of this is somehow scriptable, I thought I would ask first if there exists something to build such a solution upon... Thanks marki </blockquote></div>