Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:17:07 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail traffic analysis Message-ID: <20010511201707.B13410@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <20010511141711.I26835-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>; from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:19:08PM -0400 References: <200105111808.OAA95315@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010511141711.I26835-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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jack (jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) wrote: > Today Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > >I'm not sure how to monitor sendmail with SNMP, and would be > > >interested in hearing from others what tools they use to monitor > > >SMTP traffic on their FreeBSD systems. > > > > Depends on what and how you want to monitor. For BIND, I wrote a > > little script that stuffs those annoying statistics dumps into an > > RRD. You could conceivably do the same thing with sendmail, > > although you would have to collect your own stats by analyzing the > > log files. > > Or use mailstats(1). I wrote a perl script to parse the named stats log file and return the number of queries. These results are available via snmp by using the 'exec' feature of ucd-snmpd to call the script. I use a shell script and snmpget(1) on my monitoring machine to collect the results and update a rrdtool database every 5 minutes. It would be easy to parse the output of mailstats(1) and return the results via snmp. Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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