On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, axie wrote:
> i wonder if it is possible to monitor exim via snmp.
> i've searched the documentation and the mailing list archive
> and found that it isn't possible at present and philip stating
> "I'm not currently planning anything new for Exim 4.", but that
> message was from august 2001 ;)
I'm not currently planning anything for SNMP.
> my question is if snmp support for exim is a planned feature
> for upcoming versions? or is there any other way to implement
> some way of snmp capabilities into exim?
There is very little you can actually do in Exim itself, because of the
distributed nature of its design. I know nothing about SNMP, but I
imagine it will need some kind of permanently running daemon to which
the remote client can connect. The Exim daemon is not the right place,
because it must be very efficient in order to handle lots of incoming
connections.
So an additional program would be needed - it would have to get its
information by tailing the Exim log, as that is the only place where all
the information is available.
> btw, i still love exim for being a very powerfull mta that i
> actually can get working intuitively without reading a 800+
> pages o'reilly manual ;)
Thank you.
Philip
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