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Port Monitoring

list Paul Moore
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:12:03 -0500
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That works good if you know who is going to be hitting you but I would like
to detect unknown clients.

Paul - v966-5159
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Gore [mailto:user-3e5761c68b56@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:50 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Port Monitoring

Paul Moore wrote:
Is there a way to setup hobbit's port monitoring to alert when a specific
device has X number of established connections on particular port?  IE
alerting when one client has 20 sessions connected to port 80 signifying a
DOS attack? 
hobbit-clients.cfg:

HOST=myDOSTarget
	PORT REMOTE=%x.x.x.X.nnn STATE=ESTABLISHED MIN=1 MAX=20
Paul Moore V966-5159
MSO OSS Support
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