| 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: |
| XWall configuration |
| By default XWall does not allow access to the data. NAGIOS=True 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: NAGIOSLimitWarnInboundExch=15 Connections: NAGIOSLimitWarnInboundCon=10 |
| 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/ 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/ 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 |