[Mimedefang] Tally script?

[Dave Shepherd]

I use rrdtool http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool . It's a
round-robin
database that remains a fixed size. I then produce graphs each night
show a the following messages-processed, reject-messages, 
bytes-processed,
viruses-captured.

The graphs are a 90-day running window that are presented under
Bigbrother which creates the graphs
each night and auto-ftp's them to my BB Display hosts. It even sends
page to my cell phone if sendmail goes down via a modem call to
ATTwireless.

I also do this with all my performance stats on all my system for an
entire year for long-term trending.

First download and install rrdtool, then run these scripts I wrote to
gather and display the stats.

The first script creates the round-robin database (mkrrd_mail.sh)
The second script populates the database once each night
(fetch_mails.pl)
and the third script creates the GIF 90-day graphs each night
(rgraph-mail.sh)

You can grap the scripts and see the pritty graphs at
http://sparrow.vixel.com/dave/rrd/

I hope this helps :) 
Dave

"Ashley M. Kirchner" wrote:
> 
>     Is anyone doing any kind of tallying through their filter?  I'd like to
> track what happens no the filter level so I can present the data to the folks
> upstairs who just don't bloody understand the level of crap that flows over our
> pipe.
> 
>     Right now my filter does the following:
> 
>     - virus get action_drop_with_warning()
>     - spam score >20 get action_bounce()
>     - spam score >10 get action_quarantine_entire_message() pending
>       my approval
>     - spam score >5 get action_add_part() adding SA's report and
>       delivered to the recipient
> 
>     These numbers may change in the future, but for now it's helping quite a
> bit.  Now, what I'd like to do for starters is:
> 
>     - log how many virus email a day we get
>     - log how many messages get rejected
>     - log how many get quarantined
>     - log how many >5 pass through
> 
>     Expanding on this, (and this does NOT have to happen right away), I want to
> log how many of each virus we get.  So far I've counted some 20+ messages with
> 4 different viruses arriving at our server and getting dropped.  I want to
> tally this up in a flat text file that would list each virus we've received and
> how many times.
> 
>     Then I would like to break down the spam scores as well, for example, log
> how many messages had a score of >40, how many >30, >20, >15, etc., etc.
> 
>     I'm not sure if I should be doing this through MD's filter, or have it pass
> the data to an external script (and if so, I wouldn't know where to start.)
> 
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