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Using Hobbit to monitor a specific port for availability?

list Josh Luthman
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:31 -0400
Message-Id: <user-bea582a41672@xymon.invalid>

It's doing the telnet test.  Look for an email in th emailing list archives
that I started and Henrik responded to.

Josh

On 3/12/08, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Callahan, Tom <user-16f19114071e@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
 How would I get hobbit to monitor a specific port to ensure it is
listening? For instance, I want to monitor a Java program that listens on
port 8888, but just want hobbit to check if it can connect, and then
disconnect.
How could I do this?
I've got a couple of systems on my display that are "port pings".  There
may be a more efficient way to do it, but what I have in bb-hosts is:

    a.b.c.d hostname.domain.com    # telnet:1494

The Hobbit network tester telnets to port 1494 and either gets a
connection or not.  If not, that's a red dot.  I have no idea what's
supposed to be on port 1494, but there's a little bit of text returned that
says "ICA" so maybe it's a Citrix server.

On several recent occasions when it failed, the response logged was:

   Service telnet on hostname.domain.com is not OK : Service unavailable
(Connection reset by peer)

Ralph Mitchell

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