monitors:postfix

Postfix mail queue monitoring

Author Damien Martins
Compatibility Xymon 4.2.3 - Postfix 2.5.5-1.1 (Debian package), 2.0.18 (Fedora Core 2 package)
Requirements Postfix, unix, shell
Download Part of https://github.com/doktoil-makresh/xymon-plugins.git
Last Update 2010-04-15

Postfix mailqueue monitoring. Alerts when the queue is increasing very fast, or when above the defined thresolds, and not decreasing fast enough.

Client side

Copy bb-postfix.sh in hobboit/xymon ext directory (usually in HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext) Xymon user needs to access Postfix's spool directories. Add the following lines to HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/clientlaunch.cfg :

[postfix]
        #DISABLED
        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/postfix.sh
        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/postfix.log
        INTERVAL 5m

Server side

Add the “postfix” tag for appropriated hosts in HOBBITSERVERHOME/etc/bb-hosts, for example :

123.234.123.234 toto # postfix

To graph the vaues, follow the usual procedure : In hobbitserver.cfg, add postfix to TEST2RRD and GRAPHS definitions and add :

SPLITNCV_postfix="*:GAUGE"

In hobbitgraph.cfg, add the following :

[postfix]
        FNPATTERN postfix,(.*).rrd
        TITLE Postfix statistics
        YAXIS Mail(s)
        DEF:p@RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:lambda:AVERAGE
        LINE2:p@RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@
        GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %8.1lf (cur)
        GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %8.1lf (max)
        GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %8.1lf (min)
        GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %8.1lf (avg)\n

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#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                     
#for solaris: #!/bin/ksh                                                                                                                      

# This program is under the GPL, blah blah, go look at www.fsf.org
#                                                                 
#                                                                 
# Simple Postfix spool watcher plugin for big brother (testet with 18b3)
# Just copy this script on the mailhost running postfix to              
# $BBHOME/ext                                                           
# and change in the file $BBHOME/etc/bbdefs.sh the variable             
# BBEXT from "<whatisalreadyinthere>" to "<whatisalreadyinthere> postfix.sh"
# Perhaps you have something to change below.                               
#                                                                           
# have a great time,                                                        
# Philip Poten <philip@linuxteam.at>                                        
#  (mail me with your suggestions/bugfixes/whatever)                        
#                                                                           
#History :                                                                  
# 12 aug 2002 - Philip Poten                                                
#       v0.1 -Initial version                                               
# 15 apr 2010 - Damien Martins                                              
#       v0.2 -Major code optimizations                                      
#       -Use of absolute value for increasing/decreasing queue              
#                                                                           
# TODO for v1.0 :                                                           
#       -Use of postfix commands instead of scanning directories            

SPOOLDIR="/var/spool/postfix" # usually there.

#MACHINE="set if not started by BB"


ACTIVEWARN="100" # this is the number of allowed mails queued before warn/alert
ACTIVEALERT="200"                                                              

BOUNCEWARN="100"
BOUNCEALERT="200"

DEFERWARN="100"
DEFERALERT="200"

CORRUPTWARN="100"
CORRUPTALERT="200"

INCOMINGWARN="100"
INCOMINGALERT="200"


BBPROG=postfix; export BBPROG
TEST="postfix"               


##### don't change anything below this line #####
if test "$BBHOME" = ""                           
then                                             
        echo "BBHOME is not set... exiting"      
        exit 1                                   
fi                                               

if test ! "$BBTMP"                      # GET DEFINITIONS IF NEEDED
then                                                               
        echo "*** LOADING BBDEF ***"                               
        . $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh          # INCLUDE STANDARD DEFINITIONS
fi                                                                    

OLDACTIVE=$(cat $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.ACTIVE.old)
OLDBOUNCE=$(cat $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.BOUNCE.old)
OLDDEFER=$(cat $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.DEFER.old)  
OLDCORRUPT=$(cat $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.CORRUPT.old)
OLDINCOMING=$(cat $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.INCOMING.old)

if [ ! $OLDACTIVE ]; then OLDACTIVE=1; fi
if [ ! $OLDBOUNCE ]; then OLDBOUNCE=1; fi
if [ ! $OLDDEFER ]; then OLDDEFER=1; fi  
if [ ! $OLDCORRUPT ]; then OLDCORRUPT=1; fi
if [ ! $OLDINCOMING ]; then OLDINCOMING=1; fi

ACTIVE=$(find $SPOOLDIR/active/ -type f -mindepth 1 | wc -l)
#ACTIVE=`ls -lR $SPOOLDIR/active/* |egrep -v "(total|:$|^d|^$)"|wc -l|sed s/\ //g`
BOUNCE=$(find $SPOOLDIR/bounce/ -type f -mindepth 1 | wc -l)                      
#BOUNCE=`ls -lR $SPOOLDIR/bounce/* |egrep -v "(total|:$|^d|^$)"|wc -l|sed s/\ //g`
DEFER=$(find $SPOOLDIR/defer/ -type f -mindepth 1 | wc -l)                        
#DEFER=`ls -lR $SPOOLDIR/defer/* |egrep -v "(total|:$|^d|^$)"|wc -l|sed s/\ //g`  
CORRUPT=$(find $SPOOLDIR/corrupt/ -type f -mindepth 1 | wc -l)                    
#CORRUPT=`ls -lR $SPOOLDIR/corrupt/* |egrep -v "(total|:$|^d|^$)"|wc -l|sed s/\ //g`
INCOMING=$(find $SPOOLDIR/incoming/ -type f -mindepth 1 | wc -l)                    
#INCOMING=`ls -lR $SPOOLDIR/incoming/* |egrep -v "(total|:$|^d|^$)"|wc -l|sed s/\ //g`

echo $ACTIVE > $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.ACTIVE.old
echo $BOUNCE > $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.BOUNCE.old
echo $DEFER > $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.DEFER.old  
echo $CORRUPT > $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.CORRUPT.old
echo $INCOMING > $BBTMP/$MACHINE.postfix.INCOMING.old

let ACTIVETEND=$OLDACTIVE-$ACTIVE
let BOUNCETEND=$OLDBOUNCE-$BOUNCE
let DEFERTEND=$OLDDEFER-$DEFER   
let CORRUPTTEND=$OLDCORRUPT-$CORRUPT
let INCOMINGTEND=$OLDINCOMING-$INCOMING


RED=""
YELLOW=""

if [ $ACTIVE -gt $ACTIVEALERT ]; then
        ACTIVESTATUS="&red";         
        if [[ $RED = "" && $ACTIVETEND -gt 0 ]]; then
                RED="";                              
                REASON="$REASON Active Queue is too high but is decreasing already.<br>"
        else                                                                            
                RED=1;                                                                  
        fi;                                                                             
elif [ $ACTIVE -gt $ACTIVEWARN ]; then                                                  
        ACTIVESTATUS="&yellow";                                                         
        YELLOW=1;                                                                       
else                                                                                    
        ACTIVESTATUS="&green";                                                          
fi;                                                                                     


if [ $BOUNCE -gt $BOUNCEALERT ]; then
        BOUNCESTATUS="&red";         
        if [[ $RED = "" && $BOUNCETEND -gt 0 ]]; then
                RED="";                              
                REASON="$REASON Bounce Queue is too high but is decreasing already.<br>"
        else                                                                            
                RED=1;                                                                  
        fi;                                                                             
elif [ $BOUNCE -gt $BOUNCEWARN ]; then                                                  
        BOUNCESTATUS="&yellow";                                                         
        YELLOW=1;                                                                       
else                                                                                    
        BOUNCESTATUS="&green";                                                          
fi;                                                                                     


if [ $DEFER -gt $DEFERALERT ]; then
        DEFERSTATUS="&red";        
        if [[ $RED = "" && $DEFERTEND -gt 0 ]]; then
                RED="";                             
                REASON="$REASON Deferred Queue is too high but is decreasing already.<br>"
        else                                                                              
                RED=1;                                                                    
        fi;                                                                               
elif [ $DEFER -gt $DEFERWARN ]; then                                                      
        DEFERSTATUS="&yellow";                                                            
        YELLOW=1;                                                                         
else                                                                                      
        DEFERSTATUS="&green";                                                             
fi;                                                                                       


if [ $CORRUPT -gt $CORRUPTALERT ]; then
        CORRUPTSTATUS="&red";          
        if [[ $RED = "" && $CORRUPTTEND -gt 0 ]]; then
                RED="";                               
                REASON="$REASON Corrupt Queue is too high but is decreasing already.<br>"
        else                                                                             
                RED=1;                                                                   
        fi;                                                                              
elif [ $CORRUPT -gt $CORRUPTWARN ]; then                                                 
        CORRUPTSTATUS="&yellow";                                                         
        YELLOW=1;                                                                        
else                                                                                     
        CORRUPTSTATUS="&green";                                                          
fi;                                                                                      


if [ $INCOMING -gt $INCOMINGALERT ]; then
        INCOMINGSTATUS="&red";           
        if [[ $RED = "" && $INCOMINGTEND -gt 0 ]]; then
                RED="";                                
                REASON="$REASON Incoming Queue is too high but is decreasing already.<br>"
        else                                                                              
                RED=1;                                                                    
        fi;                                                                               
elif [ $INCOMING -gt $INCOMINGWARN ]; then                                                
        INCOMINGSTATUS="&yellow";                                                         
        YELLOW=1;                                                                         
else                                                                                      
        INCOMINGSTATUS="&green";                                                          
fi;                                                                                       







if [ $ACTIVETEND -lt 0 ]; then
        ACTIVETEND=${ACTIVETEND#-}
        ACTIVETEND="tendency <b>rising</b> with <b>$ACTIVETEND</b> mails."
elif [ $ACTIVETEND -gt 0 ]; then                                          
        ACTIVETEND="tendency <b>falling</b> with <b>$ACTIVETEND</b> mails."
else                                                                       
        ACTIVETEND="amount equal to last measure.";                        
fi;                                                                        

if [ $BOUNCETEND -lt 0 ]; then
        BOUNCETEND=${BOUNCETEND#-}
        BOUNCETEND="tendency <b>rising</b> <b>$BOUNCETEND</b> mails."
elif [ $BOUNCETEND -gt 0 ]; then                                     
        BOUNCETEND="tendency <b>falling</b> with <b>$BOUNCETEND</b> mails."
else                                                                       
        BOUNCETEND="amount equal to last measure.";                        

fi;

if [ $DEFERTEND -lt 0 ]; then
        DEFERTEND=${DEFERTEND#-}
        DEFERTEND="tendency <b>rising</b> with <b>$DEFERTEND</b> mails."
elif [ $DEFERTEND -gt 0 ]; then                                         
        DEFERTEND="tendency <b>falling</b> with <b>$DEFERTEND</b> mails."
else                                                                     
        DEFERTEND="amount equal to last measure.";                       
fi;                                                                      

if [ $CORRUPTTEND -lt 0 ]; then
        CORRUPTTEND=${CORRUPTTEND#-}
        CORRUPTTEND="tendency <b>rising</b> with <b>$CORRUPTTEND</b> mails"
elif [ $CORRUPTTEND -gt 0 ]; then                                          
        CORRUPTTEND="tendency <b>falling</b> with <b>$CORRUPTTEND</b> mails."
else                                                                         
        CORRUPTTEND="amount equal to last measure.";                         
fi;                                                                          

if [ $INCOMINGTEND -lt 0 ]; then
        INCOMINGTEND=${INCOMINGTEND#-}
        INCOMINGTEND="tendency <b>rising</b> with <b>$INCOMINGTEND</b> mails."
elif [ $INCOMINGTEND -gt 0 ]; then
        INCOMINGTEND="tendency <b>falling</b> with <b>$INCOMINGTEND</b> mails."
else
        INCOMINGTEND="amount equal to last measure.";
fi;

if [ $RED ]; then
        COLOR="red";
elif [ $YELLOW ]; then
        COLOR="yellow";
else
        COLOR="green";
fi

LINE="status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR $(date)

<br><br>

$ACTIVESTATUS Mails active: $ACTIVE
$ACTIVETEND
$BOUNCESTATUS Mails bouncing: $BOUNCE
$BOUNCETEND
$DEFERSTATUS Mails in deferred State: $DEFER
$DEFERTEND
$CORRUPTSTATUS Corrupt Mails: $CORRUPT
$CORRUPTTEND
$INCOMINGSTATUS Incoming Mails: $INCOMING
$INCOMINGTEND
<br><br>
$REASON

"

$BB $BBDISP "$LINE"

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Use of postfix commands instead of scanning directories

Reimplementation of deadcat's postfix.sh

  • 2002-08-12
    • Initial release.
  • 2010-04-15
    • Major code optimizations.
    • Use of absolute value for increasing/decreasing queue.
  • monitors/postfix.txt
  • Last modified: 2018/11/01 14:31
  • by doktoil_makresh