check_smtp issue

[Morris, Patrick]

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009, Dei Bertine wrote:

> I got it! :-)
> 
> I got confused with the check_nrpe plugin.
> 
> So what I did was enabled nrpe on the host side, then configured my services in nagios to check_nrpe!check_smtp
> 
> Now Nagios is happy.
> SMTP OK - 0.004 sec. response time

Assuming you want to know if other machines can connect to this server
and send mail, this is most likely not what you want to do. All it will
tell you is that the SMTP server can connect to itself.

If that *is* what you want, NRPE is the right way to go. If you need to
know if other machines can connect to the SMTP server, though, you
probably don't want to use NRPE.

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