Re: POSTFIX support

[Dave S. <D.T...@cs...>]

> I want to extend agents for monitorizing POSTFIX. I think that there is
> a MTA-MIB, but only SENDMAIL is currently supported. Is this correct?

Yes.

> Well, in case of my assumption was right, how does this problem can be
> attached?.Shall  I write a POSTFIX-MIB?

No.
It would be better to write an implementation module for postfix,
that would implement the MTA-MIB.

The idea of SNMP is that the MIB definitions are independent of the system
(O/S or application) that you're working with.   But the implementation
of that MIB *does* need to be specific to that system.
   So ideally we'd have:

	- a sendmail implementation of the MTA-MIB
	- an exim implementation of the MTA-MIB
	- a postfix implementation of the MTA-MIB
	- a qmail implementation of the MTA-MIB
	    <etc, etc>

To date, only one such implementation has been written (for sendmail).
But if you're happy to tackle writing a postfix implementation,
I'm sure we'd be delighted to add it to the distribution.

Dave