Plugin to monitor SMTP->POP3 delay?

[Tedman Eng]

There is a plugin called check_email_loop in contrib

Sends SMTP MSG_2 / Checks POP for MSG_1

next check:
Sends SMTP MSG_3 / Checks POP for MSG_2

next next check:
Sends SMTP MSG_4 / Checks POP for MSG_3

etc..


The 'delay' is one check_interval.

This works quite well, we're using it specifically for the purpose you
mentioned.
You can set up 2 or 3 different loops to check each of the SMTP relay points
to make it easier to isolate the bad link in your SMTP chain.

The plugin distinguishes between lost and pending messages as well.




-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Ellison [mailto:justin at techadvise.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:22 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Plugin to monitor SMTP->POP3 delay?


Before writing my own, I thought I'd ask if someone else has invented
the wheel...

There are times where AntiVirus/AntiSpam on my windows-based mail server
either dies, or slows down too much due to some corrupt message in the
queue.  Both SMTP and POP3 respond fine, but the queue begins to start
backing up.

Has anyone written a plugin that will send a message to a mailbox via
SMTP to a server, and then check that same mailbox some seconds later to
make sure that it made it to the mailbox?

Justin


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