Check postfix-version

Overview

This plugin lets you track if Postfix is End-of-Life (EOL). To compare against the current/installed version of Postfix, the check has to run on the Postfix server itself.

Fact Sheet

Check Plugin Download

https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/postfix-version

Check Interval Recommendation

Once a day

Can be called without parameters

Yes

Compiled for

Linux

Uses SQLite DBs

$TEMP/linuxfabrik-lib-version.db

Help

usage: postfix-version [-h] [-V] [--always-ok]

Tracks if postfix is EOL.

options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -V, --version  show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok    Always returns OK.

Usage Examples

./postfix-version

Output:

Postfix v3.3.22 (EOL 2022-02-05) [WARNING]

States

  • If wanted, always returns OK,

  • else returns WARN if Software is EOL

Perfdata / Metrics

Name

Type

Description

postfix-version

Number

Installed Postfix version as float. „3.3.22“ becomes „3.322“.

Credits, License