In article <E0xVfMr-0000Vm-00.1997-11-12-16-10-14@???>,
Richard Welty <welty@???> wrote:
>> We would like to know if there,
>> is a possiblity to integrate Exim and HP-Openview (popular network and
>> system monitoring system).
>
>> The idea is for HP-Openview to get alerts when exim encounters some kind
>> of problem, for example : a local host that doesn't accept any new mail
>> and the queue become bigger and bigger on exim.
>
>actually, this would be more useful than just for HP-Openview; we're
>going to be running Cabletron Spectrum as network monitoring
>software, and an SNMP capability for watching exim would be pretty
>damned useful, as we're thinking about parking Linux mail relays and
>DNS servers with Exim and Bind in our POPs, and keeping track of all
>of them is going to be pretty miserable.
For larger installations SNMP would be invaluable.
But for smaller sites that don't have an SNMP infrastructure how
about some way of getting the running daemon to dump stat's like
named does (either on demand or periodically).
It would then be trivial to write a small script that would allow
it to be interrogated from a WEB browser.
The type of information I'm most interested in seeing are requests
per minute for the last minute, five minutes, fifteen minutes (mail
load average); CPU usage for parent and children since start and
current; total messages processed (delivered, failed, rejected,
queued, frozen, etc).
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