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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2021-02-07 11:45:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2021-02-07 11:45:55 +0000 |
| commit | a8220ab2d293bb7f4b014b79d16b2fb05090fa93 (patch) | |
| tree | 77f0a30f016c0925cf7ee9292e644bba183c2774 /collectors/python.d.plugin/exim | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 1.19.0. (diff) | |
| download | netdata-a8220ab2d293bb7f4b014b79d16b2fb05090fa93.tar.xz netdata-a8220ab2d293bb7f4b014b79d16b2fb05090fa93.zip | |
Adding upstream version 1.29.0.upstream/1.29.0
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/README.md | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/exim.chart.py | 1 |
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diff --git a/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/README.md b/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/README.md index 985bd6e3..240aa7be 100644 --- a/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/README.md +++ b/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,33 @@ -# exim +<!-- +title: "Exim monitoring with Netdata" +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/README.md +sidebar_label: "Exim" +--> + +# Exim monitoring with Netdata Simple module executing `exim -bpc` to grab exim queue. This command can take a lot of time to finish its execution thus it is not recommended to run it every second. +## Requirements + +The module uses the `exim` binary, which can only be executed as root by default. We need to allow other users to `exim` binary. We solve that adding `queue_list_requires_admin` statement in exim configuration and set to `false`, because it is `true` by default. On many Linux distributions, the default location of `exim` configuration is in `/etc/exim.conf`. + +1. Edit the `exim` configuration with your preferred editor and add: +`queue_list_requires_admin = false` +2. Restart `exim` and Netdata + +*WHM (CPanel) server* + +On a WHM server, you can reconfigure `exim` over the WHM interface with the following steps. + +1. Login to WHM +2. Navigate to Service Configuration --> Exim Configuration Manager --> tab Advanced Editor +3. Scroll down to the button **Add additional configuration setting** and click on it. +4. In the new dropdown which will appear above we need to find and choose: +`queue_list_requires_admin` and set to `false` +5. Scroll to the end and click the **Save** button. + It produces only one chart: 1. **Exim Queue Emails** diff --git a/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/exim.chart.py b/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/exim.chart.py index 68b7b5cf..7238a1be 100644 --- a/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/exim.chart.py +++ b/collectors/python.d.plugin/exim/exim.chart.py @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from bases.FrameworkServices.ExecutableService import ExecutableService - EXIM_COMMAND = 'exim -bpc' ORDER = [ |