I need an email server, or something

[David A. Bandel]

On 10/19/07, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 10/19/07, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> >> I support Linux servers scattered hither and yon. I'd like for them to
> >> send me various emails when bad things happen or to report on this or that.
> >>
> >> Problem is, many of them are served by ISPs whose smtp server requires
> >> authentication. I often do not have access to the login credentials. I
> >> don't want to store login credentials for my own email server on these
> >> servers owned by clients (and not under my physical control).
> >> Additionally, lots of these ISPs block outbound port 25.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how I can get my servers to send me things?
> >>
> >> Is there an email server somewhere I can use?
> >>
> >> Surely I'm not the first to bump up against this.
> >
> > Maybe don't use email?  Can you do snmp or ssh instead?
>
> I hadn't thought of using snmp. How exactly would that work? Which
> direction does it go?
>
> I can ssh into all these boxes. But I wanted something "active" to alert
> me of problems or to just report on routine things (cron jobs, disk
> usage, etc.)
>

If what you want is to monitor things like disk space, memory, running
services, etc., why don't you look at hobbit monitor.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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