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I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:37 am
by 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
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:40 am
by 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
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:44 am
by benningtonr
I have no clue about scripting, or what language to use.
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:53 am
by 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]
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:57 am
by benningtonr
I am looking at them now, none check what I need checked.
Thanks
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:29 am
by 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.
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:32 am
by benningtonr
Yea, i looked and didn't see one either, i tried snmpwalk and that didn't find one either
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:33 am
by 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
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:37 am
by benningtonr
snmpwalk: No securityName specified
Re: I need help creating a plugin
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:14 am
by 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.