| S. No |
Parameter |
Methodology / tools |
Frequency |
Threshold |
| 1. |
Mail Queues |
Automated / Nagios / Qmail-mrtg |
5 min |
> 1000 |
| 2. |
SMTP response time |
Automated / Nagios / Qmail-mrtg |
5 min |
> 10 sec |
| 3. |
SMTP Total |
Automated / Nagios / Qmail-mrtg |
5 min |
> 30000 |
| 4. |
POP3 Response time |
Automated / Nagios / Qmail-mrtg |
5 min |
> 10 sec |
| 5. |
POP3 totals |
Automated / Nagios / Qmail-mrtg |
5 min |
> 2000 |
| 6. |
CPU utilization |
Automated / Nagios |
5 min |
> 70% peek |
| 7. |
Network Card's Bandwidth utilization |
Automated / Nagios / Open-NMS |
3 min |
> 70% on average and > 95% al time high |
| 8. |
Ping Response |
Automated / Nagios / Open-NMS |
3 min |
> 2 sec |
| 9. |
Link Latency |
Automated / Nagios / Open-NMS |
5 min |
> 300 mili sec |
| 10. |
Hard disk /partitions space utilization |
Automated / Nagios / Open-NMS |
5 min |
> 85% always |
| 11. |
WEB servers response and availability |
Automated / Nagios / Open-NMS |
5 min |
Service checks and should be available >3 min always |
| 12. |
Database , LDAP etc. availability and responses |
Automated / Nagios / Open-NMS |
5 min |
Service checks and should be available >3 min always |
| 13. |
Warning at system logs |
Manual/ Open-NMS / syslogd server |
½ hr |
|
| 14. |
Number of Process |
Automated / Nagios |
5 min |
Intel boxes >200 |
| 15. |
Host unreachable |
Automated / Nagios |
3 min |
> 3 min |
| 16. |
current network status |
Automated / Nagios / Open NMS |
5 min |
|
| 17. |
SPAM statistics |
Qmail-mtrg |
5 min |
|
| 18. |
Virus Statistics |
Qmail - mrtg |
5min |
|