How do you graph smtp stats?

[civicfan8]

Hi,

I ran across this site:
https://ciist.ist.utl.pt/cacti/graph_vi ... leaf_id=95

and I woud like to graph the smtp stats of my smtp server with Cacti, but I don't see the templates...how do you get the smtp stats like this site has?

Thanks for any info and ideas..

Regards,

Civicfan8

[Howie]

To start with, what SMTP server do you run? There isn't a universal method for all mail servers...

[fmangeant]

To start with, what SMTP server do you run? There isn't a universal method for all mail servers...

Hi Howie

in fact, there is a MTA mib : http://www.oidview.com/mibs/0/MTA-MIB.html

Question is which MTAs implement this

[Howie]

To start with, what SMTP server do you run? There isn't a universal method for all mail servers...

Hi Howie

in fact, there is a MTA mib : http://www.oidview.com/mibs/0/MTA-MIB.html

Question is which MTAs implement this

Well I know for certain that qmail doesn't so it isn't universal

Looking for RFC 2789 support, I found it for:
Sun iPlanet
Novell Groupwise
MS Exchange 5.5 (only)
ISODE

None of the 'regular' Unix MTAs (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail) and not even newer Exchange (which uses WMI instead) appear to have support. Or they keep it very quiet.



So back to the old-fashioned MTA-specific ways...

[gandalf]

Myself, I've created some Templates for "generic" mail monitoring. But it seems not be show interesting results. I've long forgotten that it exists; just this thread brought it back to my mind. If I find time (that nearly equals: never), I may post it
Reinhard

[civicfan8]

Thanks. I am running sendmail on a linux box...