test for absence of http service

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list John D. Alexander · Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:18:32 +0000 ·

I would like to test for the absence of the http service on a system and alert if it responds to http.

This is easy with most of the other network tests using a negation (!).    Ideas?


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list Colin Coe · Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:15:46 +0800 ·

I may be reading the question wrong but why not test for port 80 or 443?

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 I would like to test for the absence of the http service on a system and
alert if it responds to http.


This is easy with most of the other network tests using a negation (!).
Ideas?


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list Henrik Størner · Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:46:54 +0100 ·

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Den 19-03-2014 20:18, John D. Alexander skrev:

I would like to test for the absence of the http service on a system and
alert if it responds to http.

This is easy with most of the other network tests using a negation
(!).    Ideas?

Tests beginning with "http" in hosts.cfg are assumed to be web tests, so 
what you can do is to define another test for just port 80 in 
protocols.cfg, e.g.

	[web]
		port 80
		
and then in hosts.cfg you'll have

	10.0.0.1	myhost	# !web


Regards,
Henrik

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