Templates: Mail Servers – Exim4 SMTP Mail server

Monitors included into Mail Servers – Exim4 SMTP Mail Server template

Monitors from this application template check availability, performance and resource consumption of an Exim4 Mail Server (SMTP/SMTPS). Also,one of the monitors can send an optional test message via the monitored SMTP server. Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on UNIX-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail. Exim has been ported to most Unix-like systems, as well as to Microsoft Windows using the Cygwin emulation layer. Exim 4 is currently the default MTA on Debian GNU/Linux systems. More about templates.

Monitors list

Monitors description

Exim4 process count (enabled by default) Exim4 daemon process count.

Exim4: mail queue length (enabled by default) Mail queue length (requires root privileges).

SMTP port (enabled by default) Shows if SMTP server answers on default port (25).

Exim4 CPU usage Exim4 daemon CPU usage.

Exim4 CPU usage over SNMP Exim4 daemon CPU usage, collects data over SNMP.

Exim4 memory usage Exim4 daemon memory usage.

Exim4 memory usage over SNMP Exim4 daemon memory usage, collects data over SNMP.

Exim4 process count over SNMP Exim4 daemon process count, collects data over SNMP.

Exim4: disk space available for mail Disk space available for mail messages, MB (requires root privileges).

Exim4: disk space used by mail directory, Kb Disk space used my mail directory, Kb (requires root privileges).

Exim4: number of bounced messages Number of bounced messages (requires root privileges).

Exim4: number of frozen messages Number of frozen messages (requires root privileges).

SMTP, TLS Shows if SMTP server accepts secure connections, forced TLS.

SMTP, TLS if available Shows if SMTP server accepts connections, TLS or non-secure.

SMTP, TLS if available, test message Shows if SMTP server accepts connections, TLS or non-secure, sends a test message once a day.

SMTP, non-secure connection Shows if SMTP server accepts non-secure connections.

SMTPS Shows if SMTP server accepts SSL-encrypted connections.

SMTPS port Shows if SMTP server answers on SSL-secured port (465).

Templates overview

IPHost Network Monitor provides application templates (or just “templates” later in document), to create multiple relevant monitors in only a few clicks. Templates facilitate adding typical monitors sets; this can be particularly useful in case of big networks, when creating same-type monitors for many same-type devices is a common task. Application templates are sets of monitors that can be added, using specific predefined parameters, for a given host at once. The said set, added for given host, is displayed as a separate node in tree view pane, and is named application.

There are predefined templates; user can as well generate templates of their own – either out of existing monitors, or by cloning a predefined template. User-added template definitions are saved in XML files and can thus be conveniently augmented or applied to specific needs.