> However, it what you really want to know is if the entire mail flow is > working, I'm a fan of having procmail look for trigger messages and send > a passive check result to Nagios when it sees one. A cron job can be > set up to send mail on a regular basis, and the check can then > be configured to alert if a passive check hasn't been triggered within > a certain amount of time. Sure, it's several pieces to set up, but it > works.
Possibly OT, but if this *is* the intent of the OP, this particular package works very well for me in our Exchange environment: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Email-and-Groupware/check_email_delivery/details It will alert on failure of any part of the email path (submission, routing, delivery), as well as the latency from submission to delivery. HTH, Benny -- Me: 'How big a monster can you take out with one of those? Would you win a fight with Godzilla?' Jim: 'You could disassemble Godzilla at a range of seven miles.' -- Blog entry about the 76mm Melera, a gun on a US Navy Perry-class frigate that Somali pirates tried to seize ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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