Re: Monitoring

[Steve Hillman <hillman@sfu.ca>]

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: bburtin@zimbra.com
To: hillman@sfu.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:05:01 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Monitoring

There are some monitoring improvements coming in 6.0.  We added support for JMX, which is the Java equivalent of SNMP:

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12196

You should be able to use something like jManage as a bridge between JMX and SNMP.  We also added statistics monitoring via SOAP:

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31554

which allows you to either run zmsoap or use a custom SOAP client to get the current value of any of the counters written to /opt/zimbra/zmstat/mailboxd.csv.  In 5.0, it's possible to do monitoring, but unfortunately your only option is to parse mailboxd.csv to get the latest values.

Please file bugs or drop me a line if you have suggestions for monitoring.  It would be great to get some input from the field, so I know how people are using this stuff.

Boris

----- "Michael A. Jastremski" <jastrems@isc.upenn.edu> wrote:

> ----- "Eric Chen" <emchen@isc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 
> | We're also using nagios + a custom monitoring script that simulates
> | webmail interaction of logging onto campus SSO, checking an email,
> | and
> | logging out. 
> 
> .. In addition we monitor postfix queues, disk capacity, round-trip
> timing and the usual ports/protocols (smtp, http/s, imap, pop, 7071)
> .
> 
> One of our todo items is ldap testing, particularly for certificate
> expiration..
> 
> I'm curious, is anyone using the zimbra snmp functionality?
> 
> Luck,
> 
> 
> _Michael.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Jastremski
> Systems Programmer
> ISC Networking
> University of Pennsylvania