check_mailq running wild

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Dirk,

> early this morning Nagios (that means: check_mailq) claimed ALL of my 
> hosts to have increasing mailqueues which went up to 40 mail waiting 
> there and then cleared again.
> But none of the those hosts has received or sent mail around that period!
> 
> They are Debian Sarge stable and postfix. Nagios is 2.0rc2, the plugins 
> are current as well.
> 
> Any explanation for this?

How are you monitoring remote mail queues? With check_nrpe or check_ssh
or distributed monitoring?

If you're not using any of these, the chances are that your Nagios
machine is actually monitoring its own mail queue instead of the remote
host's queue in each case.

Cheers, Chris.
-- 
(aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)



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