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Hi

we have around 50 Production machines .
I intend to set up a unix mail server program which will ping all the machines and store the results in a text file and the same will be mailed to system and network admins ( ids might be hotmail / gmail/yahoo/ etc )

Just wanted your thoughts How should i proceed

I am using HP UX 11i v3

Any suggestions appreciated .

Does your company already have Microsoft Exchange? If so, see if your exchange has a mail relay server setup. You can then use sendmail or postfix to use the exchange server as a relay.

Lookup sendmail relay in google.

As far as setting up sendmail or postfix as a mail server itself, I haven't ever had to dabble in that. I would think you would want to do the same type of setup though.

Where 1 server is your mail server/relay and the others all use that server to send the mail.

Hi ,

I have written a ping script which pings each of the 50 machines and the o/p is stored in a file . My main objective is to send this file to users email adresses.

If it was me......

I would use PHP for the script.

In one include file I would have an array with the IP addresses of the boxes to ping. In another, an array of the email addresses to notify.

I would use the built in mail functionality of PHP to send the mail.

can we use php in hp -ux

Uhm, why not simply set up a cron job? Let your ping script write to stdout, and cron will take care of sending the results to whatever mail address you specify. Ideally, you'd set up a mailing list for the receipients (admin or so), that would make it easier to manage who receives the mail, and would simplify the next bunch of mails you are likely to send out (disk status information of the hosts, or whatever) ;-)

See cron and crontab manpages for details.

Neo, wouldn't you need a mail relay server or an actual mail server configured to actually send the mail?