[mrtg] Re: Sendmail Monitoring

[Yannis Nikolopoulos]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:07:50AM +0200, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
> Yannis Nikolopoulos wrote:
> 
> > the simplest way is to write a small shell (or perl) script that runs
> > as a cron job every 5 minutes and does a pgrep sendmail | wc -l
> > and stores that into a text file.
> > 
> > the mrtg conf file is trivial also. Make sure you have a target
> > definition like :
> > Target[host]: `cat text_file`
> > and you probably need the gauge and nopercent options.
> 
> First of all:  you seem to count lines.  This number will grow over
> time, until the logfile is purged.  This therefore is an increasing
> counter that wraps around.  Not a gauge.  

no, it's not an increasing counter. The text file that holds the output of
"pgrep sendmail | wc -l"  is overwritten every 5 mins,
therefore the curent number of sendmail processes is fed to MRTG, therefore,
it IS a gauge.

> MaxBytes is going to be
> *very* important in this setup as the wrap will occur at semi-random
> numbers.
 
MaxBytes IS very important for threshold checking . No wrapping occurs.

> Also:  Why output 'pgrep sendmail | wc -l' to a text file and then
> Target[host]: `cat text_file` ?  Wouldn't it work when you do
> Target[host]: `pgrep sendmail | wc -l` ?
 
of course it would :)

> cheers,
> -- 

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