Postfix queue ckeck in Nagios Xi

[mdsupersonic]

Hi Nagios support team,
I want to check the queue count in postfix in Nagios XI.I see some nagios plugins in nagios exchange which is related to Nagios 3.x versions.
Which plugins do you recommend for Nagios XI?

Cheers
Majid

[mcapra]

Does the check_mailq plugin that is part of the nagios-plugins package (should be in your /usr/local/nagios/libexec path) not satisfy your use case?

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[root@localhost libexec]# ./check_mailq
Usage: check_mailq -w <warn> -c <crit> [-W <warn>] [-C <crit>] [-M <MTA>] [-t <timeout>] [-v verbose]

[mdsupersonic]

Thank you for your response,
I didnt know about this plugin.how should I use it in Ngaios XI ?
I mean in GUI workspace not in CLI? I want to monitor the queue.

Cheers

[mcapra]

Does this documentation offer any insight? It's basically the exact process I would be detailing in this post.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Step 1) Create a Command definition for the check_mailq plugin
Step 2) Create a Service definition that uses the previous check_mailq command
Step 3) Apply configuration

[mdsupersonic]

Thank you very much for your help

[mcapra]

Happy to be of assistance! Let us know if you have any issues with the document I posted.

[mdsupersonic]

I'm trying to use this plugins for postfix,although in it's description is the support for sendmail and qmail.
Please don't close this thread until I see the proper result,otherwise I should search for another solution.

Cheers

Majid

[mcapra]

It should also support postfix via the -M argument.

[mdsupersonic]

and What should I put for 'MTA' option?

[mcapra]

Looking at the help menu, using -M postfix should give you the result you want.

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-M (--mailserver) = [ sendmail | qmail | postfix | exim | nullmailer ] (default = sendmail)

It's leveraging the system's mailq command though, so if there's something on your system forcing that command to check the sendmail queue there could be problems.