Zimbra beats other guys' standard for uptime

[dwmtractor]

To be fair, since I use an open-source backup script, I need to take into account the time I drop the Zimbra services for backup. It's been a while since I stood there with a stopwatch to monitor it, and I haven't modified the script to log stop & start (I suppose I should), but last time I watched, I was actually down for approx 2 minutes (and a big piece of that was the time it takes for the mailbox services to start, actually).

Since there are 1440 minutes in a day, 1438/1440 = 99.86%. Of course, that's robbing 2 minutes in the middle of the night when nobody is checking my email, so downtime that's visible to the end user would be less. . .

But if we look at involuntary downtime--that which happens because something broke, then I'm talking only a couple incidents since I started on Zimbra--and those were failures of the Clam database. That is the only thing that has ever caused me to LOSE zimbra service.

[y@w]

Originally Posted by dwmtractor

You may well be right. And configuring a commercial piece of software to monitor the uptime of an open-source mail server somehow seems wrong. . .

Haha yeah. We actually just use the Zenoss Core and built any scripts that weren't available that we wanted to monitor (I think we actually wrote 3 maybe 3-4 line bash scripts) which is released under the GPL. Then there are commercial versions that are more feature-rich (just like ZCS). You can also use any Nagios plugins which is a very handy feature as well.