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Hi Nightduke,

in my opinion it's not sufficient enough to check if a service is
listening on the port 25. Because Spamdyke might answer, but the
services behind, like qmail might be down. So we really check if a mail
is sent and look for it's delivery success with IMAP.

Anyway i would really recommend to use Nagios. As you said you have
several servers and more to watch than just one service. In the nagios
configuration-files you can include files and directories. So if you set
up a template for your hosts, it's quite easy to add other machines
dynamically, or even with bash-scripts. At first sight, the nagios
configuration looks complicated and might be a nightmare - if you're
sleeping. :-D

But minimizing the functionality, like in your case to just watching one
service, it's nothing. My nagios even starts every service thats down
within 5 minutes... nagios can be more, than just a reporter of downtimes.

Regards,
David

Davide D'Amico schrieb:
> 2009/4/14 nightduke <[email protected]>:
>> Each time i must add a machine at nagios it's a nightmare to add a machine...
> Use hostgroups (i.e. smtp-servers) and a tcp check on port 25 (or
> check_smtp) for hostgroup.
> So adding an host is simple as adding a host to a row in hostgroups.cfg.
> 
> d.
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