My working sendmail mailstats template / script

[rcaston]

I thought I would contribute the template and script I made for graphing the sendmail mailstats output.

the shell script outputs the following data when ran;

[rcaston@derivative scripts]# ./sendmail-mailstats.sh
msgsfrom:438 msgsto:116 msgsreject:7 msgsdiscard:1 msgsquran:0 bytes_from:4721K bytes_to:4336K


each field name is tied to the corresponding mailstats output; so it should be easy to follow.

from there; just make the data input method that references whichever fields you want from above and use the supplied graph template to get going.

Currently my script outputs the bytes_to and bytes_from but the attach graph template does not, I dont have a need to display them but I felt I might as well store the values all in one RRA for later use if needed.

If this is flawed or you have any improvements, suggestions, or general comments on this setup - then please post them here.

Enjoy,
-rcaston

[tiainte]

Suggestion:

walktrough how to monitor remote sendmail-servers with same script.

Took a while to figure that one out.

[warnesj]

[sizulku]

Thanks for the script. It would be great if we also could monitor bytes_from and bytes_to. Could you add this to your graph template?

[rhaskins]

Can anyone point me at an example data template or instructions that can parse the individual msgsfrom, msgsto, etc. values from the SNMP query? I have looked and looked, and tried to do this myself with no success.

Thanks!