eximstate is fairly good.
a daemon runs on remote machines, which a monitoring box then grabs info
off and sticks into a graph. easy to setup as well.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/eximstate/?topic_id=32%2C28
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Steve Haslam wrote:
> This is a project I'm returning to after a long hiatus-- to be able to
> easily collect together queue information from N different machines--
> currently, you can paste things up by running "ssh $machine mailq", but
> really what I'm heading for is to have something like eximon that
> transparently shows you messages on all the machines rather than having to
> run eximon itself on mail servers.
>
> so if someone else has already written this, I'd like to know :) but apart
> from that, I've grabbed the old queue scanner I wrote from the previous
> incarnation of this project, shifted it across from C++/STL to C/glib and
> made a utility called "exiq" that does what "mailq" does, but adds extra
> information-- notably, it tries to find what the last error on a message was
> by hunting through the msglog files, which I always ended up doing by hand.
> Apart from that, the output is quite messy, but then it's really just
> intended to be a demo-- the next stage will be to get it so you can say
> "exiq $machine", and then "exiq $machine1 $machine2 ...". Instead of writing
> my serialisation and transport myself from scrtach this time, I'll reuse
> something else though-- probably SOAP or somesuch.
>
> Anyway, I dropped a tarball into http://araqnid.ddts.net/~steve/exim-app/ if
> anyone else is interested in looking at the code (I guess the queue scanner
> routine could be used for other things too if you want). Heck, you might
> even find exiq worth it on its own.
>
> SRH
> --
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