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" <serv...@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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
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