On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:19:02PM +1100, Martin Barry wrote: > We run Postfix on most servers and would like to have accurate monitoring of > the various processes that are running.
I take a different approach, I send probe messages every ~30s and monitor their arrival time. If everything is running that needs to run, messages arrive. Otherwise, they stop. > The monitoring has configuration for processes that "must" be running (and > will alert if they are not) and those "allowed" to be running (and will > alert if anything not present in either list is running). The only required process is "master". Everything else is restarted on demand, but in the queue manager, such restarts must not be too frequent. > I've read http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html and can compile a list of > Postfix components but my question relates to which ones should be running > 100% of the time and therefore should be in our "must" configuration. Just "master". > My understanding is that only 'master', 'smtpd' and 'qmgr' fit this criteria > but any clarification the list can offer would be appreciated. When no clients are connecting, after $max_idle, there will be no smtpd(8) processes. A minimal Postfix installation will have just: PID PPID PGID USER COMMAND 11549 1 11549 root master 11551 11549 11549 postfix qmgr 6402 11549 11549 postfix pickup with all other daemons launched on demand, but it is really sufficient to make sure mail is being delivered (and perhaps that master is running). Don't worry about individual processes. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.
