I need help creating a plugin

[benningtonr]

I have a need to monitor the Barracuda Spam filter for rate controlled email.
I have a complete list of MIB's from Barracuda.
Could one of the admins help me create a service to monitor this?

Thank you

[yancy]

benningtonr,

Are you familiar with any scripting languages, and do you know which language you would like to use to create a plugin?


Regards,

-Yancy

[benningtonr]

I have no clue about scripting, or what language to use.

[scottwilkerson]

You could look at one of these
http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... =Barracuda

Alternately, if you would like us to create you a custom plugin, you would need to contact our sales department

[email protected]

[benningtonr]

I am looking at them now, none check what I need checked.

Thanks

[scottwilkerson]

I looked at the MIB doc you attached to the first post and I don't see a value for "rate controlled" anywhere in the document.

You may need to contact Barracuda to see if they have a retrievable value for this.

[benningtonr]

Yea, i looked and didn't see one either, i tried snmpwalk and that didn't find one either

[scottwilkerson]

Unless it is a value of the outbound queue that the document outlines.) This would be found by running

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snmpwalk -c <COMMUNITY_STRING> <Barracuda_SERVER> UCD-SNMP-MIB::extOutput.2

[benningtonr]

snmpwalk: No securityName specified

[benningtonr]

ok, i think I have it set.
We host a few thousand external email customers, and periodically one of them will get spoofed and send out 10's sometimes 100's of thousands of emails.
In the barracuda we allow 40 per 5 min, if there are more, they are deferred, and with this I will get notified if the count goes over 100 rate controlled email at any given time.
Again, I think i have it set right, we'll see.

Thanks again for all the help.