Search Exchange

Search All Sites

Nagios Live Webinars

Let our experts show you how Nagios can help your organization.

Contact Us

Phone: 1-888-NAGIOS-1
Email: sales@nagios.com

Login

Remember Me

Directory Tree

check_mailstats

Rating
4 votes
Favoured:
1
Current Version
1.0
Last Release Date
2012-11-18
Compatible With
  • Nagios 1.x
  • Nagios 2.x
  • Nagios 3.x
  • Nagios XI
Owner
License
GPL
Hits
59984
Files:
FileDescription
check_mailstatsBash Script
Network Monitoring Software - Download Nagios XI
Log Management Software - Nagios Log Server - Download
Netflow Analysis Software - Nagios Network Analyzer - Download
check_mailstats
Sendmail mailstats parsing script
Script parses mailstats output (total row). Provides number of received, sent, rejected and discarded mails.

Performance data interval can be interpreted as per second (-s parameter) or per minute (-m).

/var/log/sendmail.st must have 644 permissions so nagios user can get data from mailstats. You should also disable its log rotation in newsyslog.conf (file doesn't grow in size).
Reviews (3)
byxoroz, May 5, 2016
it worked but comment out the part

#if [ ! -r "/var/log/sendmail.st" ]; then
# printf "CRITICAL - /var/log/sendmail.st #has wrong permissions, should be 644
"
# exit
#fi
Would you mind sharing the CentOS version of the script you created pls ?
byGldRush98, January 22, 2013
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I'm on CentOS and it seems that mailstats works pretty differently on CentOS than FreeBSD (What the author wrote it for).
I had to re-write a large part of the script... I also gave it the ability to check for warning and critical values for received and sent mail, something else lacking here. I spent probably 4 hours bringing this script up to a usable point for us.