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Nagios (IT Infrastructure Monitoring)

XWall has an interface to query the status of the queue that can be used to signal the status to Nagios.

How it works

A Perl script opens a connection on port 25 to XWall and sends a special ESMTP command.

XWall will then return the current state of the queue ( e.g. OK, WARNING or CRITICAL) and the amount of messages in the queue.

Nagios gets the output of the script and based on the rules, it triggers an action.

A sample connection looks like:

Connection opened by yourmrtg.domain.com [10.0.0.1]
> 220 yoursrv.domain.com ESMTP XWall
< HELO yournagios.domain.com
> 250 yoursrv.domain.com
< XBNAGIOS
> 250 WARNING - (S-O: 17; S-I: 0; E-O: 0; E-I: 0)
< QUIT.0.0.1]

XWall configuration

By default XWall does not allow access to the data.

NAGIOS=True
NAGIOSAllowIP=10.0.0.1

Note: Substitute 10.0.0.1 with the IP address of your Nagios machine.

The default values for warnign and critical are:

SMTP Queue:

SMTP Queue:
NAGIOSLimitWarnInboundSMTP=15
NAGIOSLimitWarnOutboundSMTP=15
NAGIOSLimitCritInboundSMTP=30
NAGIOSLimitCritOutboundSMTP=30

Exchange Queue:

NAGIOSLimitWarnInboundExch=15
NAGIOSLimitWarnOutboundExch=15
NAGIOSLimitCritInboundExch=30
NAGIOSLimitCritOutboundExch=30

Connections:

NAGIOSLimitWarnInboundCon=10
NAGIOSLimitWarnOutboundCon=10
NAGIOSLimitCritInboundCon=20
NAGIOSLimitCritOutboundCon=20

Installation:

Download nagios.zip

Extract check_xwall.pl and copy it to /usr/local/nagios/libexec

Make the script executable using

cmod 755 /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_xwall.pl
cmod 755 /usr/local/nagios/
libexec/check_xwall.pl

Add the command definition from sample-nagios.cfg to your nagios cfg file

Bind a Nagios service and/or host to the command

On the XWall server, add the commands from sample-xwall.ini to XWall. ini to permit Nagios to query the XWall server

Run the script manually to see if there is any problem using a command line like

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_xwall.pl -H yourxwall.yourdomain.com --debug
/usr/local/nagios/
libexec/check_xwall.pl
-H yourxwall.yourdomain.com
--debug

Note: The sample assumes that the Nagios plug-in are installed in /usr/local/nagios/libexec If they are in a different direcory, then you need to change the direcory in the samples and also in check_xwall.pl

Download the sample files and the Perl script

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