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[Micah Anderson <address@concealed>]

* Patrick von der Hagen <address@concealed> [080204 03:20]:
> Am Montag, den 04.02.2008, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Johan Loubser:
> > Is there any official nagios plugins to check sympa.pl processes.
> I can only suggest an "indirect" way. I did two small munin-plugins to
> monitor sympa-spool and do some statistics based on sympa-log.

I do process monitoring with nagios to make sure the daemons are
running, things like:

check_command nagios-stat-proc!/usr/bin/perl 
/home/sympa/bin/archived.pl!1!1!proc

check_command nagios-stat-proc!/usr/bin/perl 
/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi!2!1!proc

check_command nagios-stat-proc!/usr/bin/perl 
/home/sympa/bin/bounced.pl!1!1!proc

check_command nagios-stat-proc!/usr/bin/perl 
/home/sympa/bin/task_manager.pl!1!1!proc

check_command nagios-stat-proc!/usr/bin/perl /home/sympa/bin/sympa.pl!1!1!proc

check_command nagios-stat-proc!/usr/sbin/apache!2!1!proc

These all keep me alert for when the processes die.

> It is trivial to define some limits like "incoming-spool less than 10"
> and have munin recognise an incoming spool with 100 messages as an
> error-state.

I think the incoming spool being less than 10 is a common thing. I would
be more interested in being alerted when the incoming spool grows past a
certain point, because that would mean things either weren't processing
properly, or someone is sending out something huge that maybe they
shouldn't be...

> Connecting munin to nagios isn't trivial, but not difficult.

I haven't gotten this to work still...

micah