[Exim] [OT]: Monitoring software

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Author: Thomas Fini Hansen
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To: exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [Exim] SMTP Protocol Violation and "Big Brother"
Subject: [Exim] [OT]: Monitoring software
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:47:07PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Who wants to pay for monitoring software when a combination of ping,
> netcat, cron and a few text files can do the job for free? :)


Why, when Nagios (formerly Netsaint) does it very well, comes with a
SMTP checker, and allows you to plug in your own simple scripts should
the provided check plugins not suit your needs? And you get
availability reports and notifications on top of that. And it looks
nice too.

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Thomas
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