You could also probably easily adapt the Mailgraph.cgi tool to graph
those additional stats.
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/software/mailgraph/
It's already parsing for "spam", "rejected", "bounced", "received",
and "sent". Shouldn't be too hard to extend it to handle the policyd
stats. Or even just completely change it to only do the policyd
stats, and create a separate tool that graphs just policyd.
Frankly, I just use the plain mailgraph to see a nice comparison of
life before policyd and life after (very low spam, reduced received
messages, and very high number of rejects). However, I can see how
it would be nice to see what it's doing with all the lists.
-Rob
On Jan 7, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:
Hi Cami,
I'm rewatching my logfiles and rebuilding my whitelist and
blacklist
dnsnames entries.
While i was doing that, i was thinking of maybe an easy way of
monitoring policyd accept/blocking of messages, basically for getting
this information and throwing at some Cacti/RRDTool graphic. I
noticed i
wouldnt be able to do that easy: i would have to grep log, count
things
...... it's possible, but it would have high cost, because i deal with
some BIG logfiles ... even rotating them daily, they get pretty big.
Grepping them every 5 minutes wouldnt be nice for I/O. And i dont want
that :)
So, i was thinking of maybe getting policyd a new feature .... a
statistics table that would hold basically two columns: one for the
action name (whitelist_dnsname, blacklist_dnsname, greylist=new,
greylist=update, blacklist_helo, throttle actions and all the others)
and other column for an integer/big-integer counter, that would always
receive +1 when that action happens. That could be done in a single
query: update statistics_table set count=count+1 when
action_name='something'.
With this table, which i dont think would be that hard to
implement,
some easy perl/PHP script could be written for grabbing the
information
and making some monitoring graphs build VERY easily.
Updating tables always have some I/O cost ..... but as this
being a
very small table, even we have 40-50 actions, i doubt it would
increase
I/O in a noticable way. But of course, this can be easily be a
configurable option.
What do you think on that ???
--
Atenciosamente / Sincerily,
Leonardo Rodrigues
Solutti Tecnologia
http://www.solutti.com.br
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