[rrd-users] Re: Data acquisition for an RRD to store mail flow rates.

[Tobias Oetiker]

Stanley,

you might want to look at david schweikerts mailgraph for
inspiration

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/software/mailgraph/

tobi


> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> Please would you suggest methods of capturing mail flow rate data for
> storage in an RRD ?
>
> The only thing that comes to mind is periodically reading the tail of
> the mail server log (each interval read from the last end of file to the
> current, and counting each record of a mail delivery).
>
> Is this what others do ?
>
> Eximstate is not an option since the problem MTAs are sendmail.
>
> I am interested in doing this to employ the aberrant failure detection
> (HW forecast) RRAs.
>
> Yours sincerely.
>
>
>

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