markguz@??? said:
} I am trying to hack MRTG to monitor the in/out traffic levels on EXIM.
} I kind of have it working, but its a bit of a cludge which involves
} parsing the output of eximstat taking the total in and the total out ,
} subtracting the last reading i took and getting the 5min traffic
} level. This becomes even more fun when the counter resets at midnight.
Ugh. That really is cracking a walnut with a fleet of steam rollers....
Try something like this:-
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use strict;
use File::Tail;
my $logfile = '/var/log/exim/main.log';
{ # main
my $fh = File::Tail->new('name' => $logfile,
'interval' => 5,
'maxinterval' => 20,
'resetafter' => 60,
'adjustafter' => 20)
or
die "Could not open $logfile: $!";
my $in;
my $out;
while(defined($line = $fh->read())) {
chomp($line);
$in++ if (/ <= /);
$out++ if (/ [=-*]> /);
# do something with in/out count...
}
}
Final implementation is left as an exercise for the reader....
Nigel.
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