Monitoring email messages in an Exchange environment?

[Matt White]

Hi Mirza,

First I would look at setting up some server side rules in Outlook to move the non-critical messages to another folder or forward the critical ones based on subject/content to a mailbox then maybe tie that in with a plugin that checks for mail flow to a mailbox (you would need to allow pop/imap access to the mailbox for Nagios to check it)

I haven't tried this before but it will hopefully point you in the right direction.

Kind regards,
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Mirza Dedic [mailto:mirde at oppy.com] 
Sent: 15 October 2010 18:12
To: 'Nagios Users List'
Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring email messages in an Exchange environment?

Hi,

I have a request where we want to "monitor" a mailbox, our environment is Exchange 2007 SP1, the end clients use Outlook 2007/2010.

Basically we have email that comes in which are simple "notification messages" from a server, but because it generates a lot of notification messages it is not idea to check every single one of them for errors, so we would like to scan them and filter on different error messages.

I could do this using consol.de's check_log plug-in, but for it to work I would need to be able to somehow export the messages in csv or txt to a directory from which it can "scan". Anyone done something like this, using Nagios care to share your method?

Thank you.

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