check_mailq plugin is not working

[amit9876]

hi, I am trying to use check_mailq plugin for one of my postfix mail server(rhel7). The plugin is executing locally on the mail server but throwing error from Nagios XI GUI or Nagios Server . Please let me know what needs to be done to use it.

Please note nagios user has sudo rights on the VM.


[nagios-prod@oc-monitoring-prod libexec]$ ./check_mailq -w 20 -c 50
ERROR: is not executable by (uid 1000:gid(1000 1000))

Thanks in advance..

[scottwilkerson]

from the help for the plugin

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 This plugin uses the system mailq command (sendmail) or qmail-stat (qmail)
 to look at the queues. Mailq can usually only be accessed by root or
 a TrustedUser. You will have to set appropriate permissions for the plugin to work.

You may not have appropriate permission on mailq

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ls -l /usr/bin/mailq

[amit9876]

hi ,

I do understand this is permission problem but I am not sure what needs to beset up . Could you help me in this.

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 Oct 25 15:17 /usr/bin/mailq -> /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq

thanks..

[scottwilkerson]

What are the permissions here

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ls -l /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq

[amit9876]

hi,

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 23 Oct 25 15:17 /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq -> /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail

[scottwilkerson]

and then

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ls -l /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail

we need to follow the symlinks to the actual binary

[amit9876]

thanks ..this worked..

but I had to install NRPE agent on client machine and define below command in nrpe.cfg

command[check_mailq]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w 50 -c 100


This is also very useful link for future reference.
http://uppayinix.blogspot.com/2010/09/n ... iling.html

[scottwilkerson]

thanks ..this worked..

but I had to install NRPE agent on client machine and define below command in nrpe.cfg

command[check_mailq]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w 50 -c 100


This is also very useful link for future reference.
http://uppayinix.blogspot.com/2010/09/n ... iling.html

great glad you got it resolved!

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