2012-01-09 21:07:28 +01:00
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Low volume postfix_mailqueue munin plugin
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The original postfix_mailqueue plugin delivered with munin does very well
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in many aspects. But it has a design related problem: to measure the number
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of mails per queue (active, incomming, deferred, ...) it counts the entries
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in the corresponding spool directories every 5 minutes (when munin core asks).
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If a mail only stays a short time in a queue (especially active and incomming
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queues) it won't get recognized by postfix_mailqueue.
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Since on my low volume mailserver I'm interested in the total number of sent/
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recieved messages in the last 5 minutes (for the deferred and hold queues the
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original method is good enough since a mail there probably stays longer than
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5 minutes) I changed the behavior and meaning of the "active" and "incomming"
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graphs to "outgoing" (to the network) and "incomming" (from the network).
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To determine the number of mails for these graphs the recent (5 minutes, hardcoded)
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syslog entries are grep'ed for signaling sequences indicating some kind of
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action of postfix.
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2012-01-13 21:10:25 +01:00
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Install
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Clone this repository or download the postfix_mailqueue file and create a
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symlinkas *root* in /etc/munin/plugins by using e.g.:
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cd /etc/munin/plugins; ln -s /your/path/to/postfix_mailqueue postfix_mailqueue
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Since this script does not honor a environment variable to locate your
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*mail.log* you currently have to set the `MAILLOG` variable (which defaults
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to */var/log/mail.log*) in the script's header.
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Next make sure that munin is allowed or at least allows this script to read
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your *mail.log*. How to do this depends on your system.
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On Debian 6 *mail.log* is owned by `root:adm` and readable by nobody but them.
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The recommended way here is to advice munin to run postfix_mailqueue with group
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adm (and user postfix, by default) by modifying */etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node*
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where you should change/add a line to the `[postfix_mailqueue]` section:
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group adm
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Later you will set the *mail.log* path here, too.
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2012-01-09 21:07:28 +01:00
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syslog5mins
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This little script returns the entries of a (syslog created) file of the last
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5 minutes.
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