Notification

[Carroll, Jim P [PCS]]

How about:

- build out another mail server
- in DNS, define it as a lower priority MX record than
  the first mail server, eg, if the first mail server
  had a priority of 5, set this one to 10
- let the MX resolver and MTA figure out the rest

Alternatively, you could set up a service to montor port 25
of your mail server (check_smtp) and define an event handler
to run some predefined script, like send something to
Jabber, for example.

Yet another possibility is to set up a 2nd Nagios server which
strictly monitors your mail server's SMTP port, but has its
own MTA configured to point to another mail server (assuming
you have this luxury), or to run a script which pumps something
into Jabber, or MSN, or Qpage, etc.

Food for thought.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Duraiswamy [mailto:jduraisw at smtp.aed.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: mpowell at ena.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notification
> 
> 
> May be I did'nt explain it right. What I want to do is, only 
> if the mail server goes down to redirect  the notification 
> somewhere else.
> 
> thanks
> -john
> 
> >>> "Marc Powell" <mpowell at ena.com> 08/15/03 02:33PM >>>
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/index.php?section_id=7&expand=false
> &showdesc= 
> true
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Duraiswamy [mailto:jduraisw at smtp.aed.org] 
> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:33 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Our nagios is configured pretty much to check anything in 
> our network,
> the
> > problem what I run into is when the mail server goes down 
> we don't get
> any
> > notifications. How do I work around this to send 
> notification to send
> > outside our network.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > John Duraiswamy, CCNP
> > Network Engineer
> > Academy for Educational Development
> > Tel. 202-884-8116  Cell. 202-439-5064
> > Fax. 202-884-8464
> > 
> > 
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