#title Monitoring Exim's Mail Queue with Nagios
#author Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
#topics blog; Exim; Nagios
#date 2008-04-16
#pubdate 2008-04-16T11:28:01+02:00
#lang en



There is a plugin at Nagios Exchange to monitor Exim's Mail Queue:

[[http://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins/Software/Mail/check_eximailqueue][check_eximailqueue]].

Put this script into your Nagios plugin directory. Adjust the paths to <code>utils.sh</code> and the exim binary if necessary.

On Debian you need to install <code>nagios-plugins-basic</code> first and use the following

paths:

<example>

. /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/utils.sh</code>

EXIM=/usr/sbin/exim4

Install <code>sudo</code> if necessary.

Now add the following line to <code>/etc/sudoers</code> with <code>visudo</code>:

<example>

nagios ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/exim4

</example>

Add a line to <code>nrpe_local.cfg</code> on your mail server.

<example>

command[check_eximailqueue]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_eximailqueue -w 250 -c 500

</example>

Restart Nagios NRPE server with:

<example>

/etc/init.d/nagios-nrpe-server restart

</example>