On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Martijn de Munnik <mart...@youngguns.nl>wrote:
> Hi, > > Of course I don't want this to happen again in the future. How do people > test their mail server periodically? So far we use webmin which tries to > connect to port 25, 110 and 143 and checks if the greeting is correct. If > one of these connections fail we get a phone call. I can't check services > which are only running on localhost because webmin is checking from a > remote host. > > Thanks, > Martijn > > I use the open-source monitoring tool http://www.nagios.org/ combined with NRPE to monitor all my servers and services. -- Mike Saldivar Direct Financial Solutions Information Systems Manager Desk: 435-774-8252 Cell: 435-881-3778