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<p class=MsoNormal>Hey all, I’m new to the list and cutting my teeth on Perl
(I’m a Windows/Exchange guy by trade) but seem to be the only person where
I work who has setup MRTG successfully and has it monitoring all the routers
and switches at each client I deal with on a daily basis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We just installed Exchange 2007 into a multi-site organization,
got everything working exchange wise perfectly and now I’ve turned my
sites to monitoring it. Since I have MRTG already installed and it’s got
that wonderful external scripts option I figured I could write something simple
to parse a file and pass the results to MRTG.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It works…Sort of.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here is the Perl code:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>#!/usr/bin/perl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>$FileName = $ARGV[0];<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>open(queueFile, "$FileName");<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>my $queueFile = <queueFile>;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>$queueFile =~
s/copyqueuelength
: //gi;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print $queueFile;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print "0\n";<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print "0\n";<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print "CopyQueueLength";<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The script expects a file with 1 line in it. This file is
generated and over written once every 15 minutes with the # changing (hopefully
dropping and/or staying at 0) and downloaded from my Exchange 2007 server to me
MRTG VM .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>CopyQueueLength
: 200<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here is the MRTG config file:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Target[exchange]: `/etc/mrtg/scripts/parseExch07.pl
/etc/mrtg/scripts/copyqueuelength.txt`<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>MaxBytes[exchange]: 100000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>YLegend[exchange]: Files<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Legend1[exchange]: Copy Queue Length<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Legend2[exchange]: Replay Queue Length<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>LegendI[exchange]: Copy Queue Length<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>LegendO[exchange]: Replay Queue Length<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ShortLegend[exchange]: Files<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Title[exchange]: Copy Queue Length<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Options[exchange]: growright, nopercent, integer, unknaszero<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Colours[exchange]:
GREEN#00eb0c,BLUE#0000ff,GRAY#AAAAAA,VIOLET#ff00ff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>WithPeak[exchange]: ymw<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PageTop[exchange]: <H1>Copy queue Length</H1><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>When I run mrtg with this config file I get:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>readline() on closed filehandle NF at /usr/bin/mrtg line
1311.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any Ideas?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance. Once I get this working I’ll be
sure to share it as so far I haven’t found an app that will monitor Exchange
2007 SCR queue length.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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