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Monitoring Apache James
Hi list,
I am interesting in monitoring Apache James automatically from Nagios
(http://www.nagios.org) and was wondering if I could get a bit of
insight from the list on the best way to do this?
Firstly, what log files does James write out to?
Secondly, if, for some reason, James is building up a backlog of
emails, would this be determinable by looking at log file errors?
Thanks for your help,
Chris
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Re: Monitoring Apache James
Posted by Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for your help Norman - I already have a plugin for running SQL
and checking results, so it should be easy enough to adapt it to check
the spool table.
Cheers,
Chris
2009/12/22 Norman Maurer <no...@googlemail.com>:
> Hi Chris,
>
> the plugin was written for my old employer so I don't have access to
> it anymore. Anyway, its really simple. Just use mysql to check how
> many rows are in the spool table and if more then X are in it return a
> WARNING or ERROR.
>
> select count(*) from spool;
>
> Bye,
> Norman
>
>
> 2009/12/21 Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. Is your plug-in available anywhere to take a
>> look at - or was it for internal use only?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> 2009/12/21 Norman Maurer <no...@googlemail.com>:
>>> Hi Christopher,
>>>
>>> when using James 2.3.x the monitoring options are a bit limited. When
>>> using James 2.3.x in the past we used the check_smtp stuff and using a
>>> costum nagios plugin script which used sql to check the size of the
>>> queue (we used sql for the spool storage).
>>>
>>> With James 3.x (which is current development version) you could use
>>> JMX for most such stuff.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> Norman
>>>
>>> 2009/12/17 Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> I am interesting in monitoring Apache James automatically from Nagios
>>>> (http://www.nagios.org) and was wondering if I could get a bit of
>>>> insight from the list on the best way to do this?
>>>>
>>>> Firstly, what log files does James write out to?
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, if, for some reason, James is building up a backlog of
>>>> emails, would this be determinable by looking at log file errors?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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Re: Monitoring Apache James
Posted by Norman Maurer <no...@googlemail.com>.
Hi Chris,
the plugin was written for my old employer so I don't have access to
it anymore. Anyway, its really simple. Just use mysql to check how
many rows are in the spool table and if more then X are in it return a
WARNING or ERROR.
select count(*) from spool;
Bye,
Norman
2009/12/21 Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>:
> Hi James,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Is your plug-in available anywhere to take a
> look at - or was it for internal use only?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> 2009/12/21 Norman Maurer <no...@googlemail.com>:
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> when using James 2.3.x the monitoring options are a bit limited. When
>> using James 2.3.x in the past we used the check_smtp stuff and using a
>> costum nagios plugin script which used sql to check the size of the
>> queue (we used sql for the spool storage).
>>
>> With James 3.x (which is current development version) you could use
>> JMX for most such stuff.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Bye,
>> Norman
>>
>> 2009/12/17 Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I am interesting in monitoring Apache James automatically from Nagios
>>> (http://www.nagios.org) and was wondering if I could get a bit of
>>> insight from the list on the best way to do this?
>>>
>>> Firstly, what log files does James write out to?
>>>
>>> Secondly, if, for some reason, James is building up a backlog of
>>> emails, would this be determinable by looking at log file errors?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> Chris
>>>
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Re: Monitoring Apache James
Posted by Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>.
Hi James,
Thanks for your reply. Is your plug-in available anywhere to take a
look at - or was it for internal use only?
Cheers,
Chris
2009/12/21 Norman Maurer <no...@googlemail.com>:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> when using James 2.3.x the monitoring options are a bit limited. When
> using James 2.3.x in the past we used the check_smtp stuff and using a
> costum nagios plugin script which used sql to check the size of the
> queue (we used sql for the spool storage).
>
> With James 3.x (which is current development version) you could use
> JMX for most such stuff.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bye,
> Norman
>
> 2009/12/17 Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I am interesting in monitoring Apache James automatically from Nagios
>> (http://www.nagios.org) and was wondering if I could get a bit of
>> insight from the list on the best way to do this?
>>
>> Firstly, what log files does James write out to?
>>
>> Secondly, if, for some reason, James is building up a backlog of
>> emails, would this be determinable by looking at log file errors?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Chris
>>
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Re: Monitoring Apache James
Posted by Norman Maurer <no...@googlemail.com>.
Hi Christopher,
when using James 2.3.x the monitoring options are a bit limited. When
using James 2.3.x in the past we used the check_smtp stuff and using a
costum nagios plugin script which used sql to check the size of the
queue (we used sql for the spool storage).
With James 3.x (which is current development version) you could use
JMX for most such stuff.
Hope this helps,
Bye,
Norman
2009/12/17 Christopher McAtackney <cr...@gmail.com>:
> Hi list,
>
> I am interesting in monitoring Apache James automatically from Nagios
> (http://www.nagios.org) and was wondering if I could get a bit of
> insight from the list on the best way to do this?
>
> Firstly, what log files does James write out to?
>
> Secondly, if, for some reason, James is building up a backlog of
> emails, would this be determinable by looking at log file errors?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Chris
>
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