Postfix monitoring with Cacti, my way – part 2

By Lux, on August 19th, 2015 Linux, Postfix

In this second post, we’ll see how to collect event statistics from Postfix (deliveries, rejection, and similar) and publish them in snmp to our monitoring tools, specifically but not limited to Cacti.

There’s no magic here: Postfix logs details about it’s activity to syslog, and there is there we are going to search our events.
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Postfix monitoring with Cacti, my way – part 1

By Lux, on August 17th, 2015 Linux, Postfix

In the next few posts I’ll show how I collect data from Postfix, publish them into net-snmp, and graph them with Cacti.

I am interested in data about Postfix queues sizes possibly on multi-instance configurations, and about Postfix events.
I decided to use SNMP instead of launching scripts directly by Cacti for a number
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Alcatel Lucent AP-103 connected clients do not get Internet access via Telecom Italia ADSL

By Lux, on August 4th, 2015 Cisco

Be aware: I did not go too deep into this problem. Any further observation is welcome.

A colleague had an ADSL internet access from Telecom Italia attached to a Cisco 857 router, which did work fine. He connected to an Alcatel Lucent AP-103 access point (manufactured by Aruba Networks) to the router. WiFi clients were
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