Nagios plugin for checking postfix queue sizes.

check_postfix_mailqueue

#!/bin/bash
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# check_postfix_mailqueue is developped with GPL Licence 2.0
#
# GPL License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
#
# Developped by : Bjoern Bongermino
#
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# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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#
# minor fixes by alexlehm@gmail.com https://gist.github.com/alexlehm/8084195
#

# Uncomment to enable debugging
# set -x

# added the ability to select the queue to check for alerts
# by mlwood98@gmail.com https://gist.github.com/mlwood98/c5cb1e80be595b625c60

PROGNAME=`basename $0`
VERSION="Version 1.0"
AUTHOR="Bjoern Bongermino (http://www.bongermino.de)"

STATE_OK=0
STATE_WARNING=1
STATE_CRITICAL=2
STATE_UNKNOWN=3

warning=0
critical=0
queue="deferred"

print_version() {
    echo "$PROGNAME $VERSION $AUTHOR"
}

print_help() {
    print_version $PROGNAME $VERSION
    echo ""
    echo "$PROGNAME - Checks postfix mailqueue statistic"
    echo ""
    echo "$PROGNAME is a Nagios plugin which generates statistics"
    echo "for the postfix mailqueue and checks for corrupt messages."
    echo "The following values will be checked:"
    echo "maildrop: Localy posted mail"
    echo "incoming: Processed local mail and received from network"
    echo "active: Mails being delivered (should be small)"
    echo "deferred: Stuck mails (that will be retried later)"
    echo "corrupt: Messages found to not be in correct format (should be 0)"
    echo "hold: Recent addition, messages put on hold indefinitly - delete of free"
    echo ""
    echo "Usage: $PROGNAME -w WARN-Level -c CRIT-Level"
    echo ""
    echo "Options:"
    echo "  -w)"
    echo "     Warning level for deferred mails"
    echo "  -c)"
    echo "     Critical level for deferred mail"
    echo "  -h)"
    echo "     This help"
    echo "  -v)"
    echo "     Version"
    echo "  -q)"
    echo "     Queue"
    echo "        deferred"
    echo "        active"
    echo "        maildrop"
    echo "        incoming"
    echo "        hold"
    exit $STATE_OK
}

# Check for parameters
while test -n "$1"; do
    case "$1" in
    -h)
      print_help
      exit $STATE_OK;;
    -v)
      print_version
      exit $STATE_OK;;
    -w)
      warning=$2
      shift
      ;;
    -c)
      critical=$2
      shift
      ;;
    -q)
      queue=$2
      shift
      ;;
    *)
#     check_postfix_mailqueue
      ;;
  esac
  shift
done

check_postfix_mailqueue() {
# Can be set via environment, but default is fetched by postconf (if available,
# else /var/spool/postfix) 
if which postconf > /dev/null ; then
   SPOOLDIR=${spooldir:-`postconf -h queue_directory`}
else
   SPOOLDIR=${spooldir:-/var/spool/postfix}
fi

cd $SPOOLDIR >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || {
     echo -n "Cannot cd to $SPOOLDIR"
     exit $STATE_CRITICAL
}

for d in deferred active maildrop incoming corrupt hold
do
  if [ ! -r $d ]
  then
      echo -n "queue dir '$d' is not readable"
      exit $STATE_CRITICAL
  fi
done

# Get values
deferred=`(test -d deferred && find deferred -type f ) | wc -l`
active=`(test -d active && find active -type f ) | wc -l`
maildrop=`(test -d maildrop && find maildrop -type f ) | wc -l`
incoming=`(test -d incoming && find incoming -type f ) | wc -l`
corrupt=`(test -d corrupt && find corrupt -type f ) | wc -l`
hold=`( test -d hold && find hold -type f ) | wc -l`
}

check_postfix_mailqueue
values="Deferred mails=$deferred Active deliveries=$active Locally posted mails=$maildrop Incoming mails=$incoming Corrupt mails=$corrupt Mails on hold=$hold"
perfdata="deferred=$deferred;; active=$active;; maildrop=$maildrop;; incoming=$incoming;; corrupt=$corrupt;; hold=$hold;;"

if [ $corrupt -gt 0 ]; then
  echo -n "Postfix Mailqueue CRITICAL - $corrupt corrupt messages found! | $perfdata"
  exit $STATE_CRITICAL
fi

if [ $warning -gt 0 ] && [ $critical -gt 0 ]; then
   if [ ${!queue} -gt $critical ]; then
      echo -n "Postfix Mailqueue CRITICAL - $values | $perfdata"
      exit $STATE_CRITICAL
   elif [ ${!queue} -gt $warning ]; then
      echo -n "Postfix Mailqueue WARNING - $values | $perfdata"
      exit $STATE_WARNING
   else
      echo -n "Postfix Mailqueue OK - $values | $perfdata"
      exit $STATE_OK
   fi
else
   echo -n "Postfix Mailqueue OK - $values | $perfdata"
   exit $STATE_OK
fi

Hi,

I rewrote this plugin to support thresholds options on all the values (active is very useful).
You can find it here: https://github.com/Sysnove/shinken-plugins/blob/master/check_postfix_mailqueue

Thank you.