Passive Service Checks from E-mail?

[Rasmus Plewe]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:10:35AM +1100, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:09:15PM -0800, Hiatt, William wrote:
> 
> > I need to monitor some backup jobs from Veritas BackupEXEC.
> > Unfortunately, BackupEXEC doesn't send SNMP traps when a job is
> > successful (Figure that out!). But, it can send an e-mail out when a job
> > has failed or is successful. Does anyone know the best way to parse this
> > e-mail, or is anybody doing something like this already? Just thought
> > I'd check-in before I spent the time to write one myself.
> 
> 1 Having your MTA recognise that the letter (from Veritas) needs special
> handling ie programmatic handling
> 
> 2 Writing the program that slurps the letter, spits out the headers, and
> extracts the backup status from what's left, and submitting the properly
> formatted check result.

Hmm, what are the disadvantages of simply using check_log(2.pl) on the
mail file? 


Rasmus


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