How to test remote ports

Hi,

another possible scenario could be to put the following in protocols.cfg (in my example to check for port 82):

[tcp82]
        port 82

In your hosts.cfg, you need to put tcp82 just after the hostname that you want to check (don't forget to include the #) - example:

1.2.3.4        testhost        # tcp82


After a while your testhost should show up an additional column tcp82 (it's the name is as defined in your protocols.cfg).
We are doing that for a lot of hosts.
Hope it'll help you a bit.


Regards
Christian


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Hi,

I've been trying to establish a remote port check, but cannot get it to work. After reading the man pages and the corresponding topics on the mailing list, I've configured a test like this:

PORT REMOTE=1.2.3.4:80

but the remote port always comes back as down, even though it is up. Am I doing something wrong? Local port checks all work perfectly, only the remote ones do not.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Context: I am using local mode on all clients, so I'm putting all my checks in /etc/xymon/localclient.cfg, but this should not effect this check, right?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Christoph Zechner