Kind of long-winded, but I have it sufficiently automated now that it takes only a few minutes.
In server monitoring configuration, monitor these three events and log to a database based on the statistics reporting template:
- Any event where event message contains the text "found in DNS blacklist at"
- Any event where event message contains the text "rejected for policy reasons"
- Built in event "SMTP Server: <string> disconnected. <number> message[s] received"
Each month, export this database as tabular text and then count lines in the resulting text file containing e.g. name of blacklist, "recipient not found in Domino Directory" and so on. I use the DOS command find with the /c switch. Send the output to text files. Automate the whole thing with a batch file.
You now have a load of text files containing the count of various events during the month. E.g:
- Total SMTP sessions ("message[s] received") - call it A
- SMTP sessions where no messages were received ("0 message[s] received") - call it B
- Hence SMTP sessions resulting in the delivery of one or more messages (A - B)
- ... and so on
Then plug the figures into Excel and chart them.
Like I said, the whole process takes maybe 2 minutes now that I have the event logging, export routine, batch file and Excel template.
HTH
Full description of the various slices of the pie may be found in my blog (link below).
Chris Linfoot
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