SSH - Make Red if ACTIVE 🔗 link

I have set up XYMon and XYMon - Client successfully today!

 
But I have an interesting situation, I have services like my Routers and
esxi servers where I want XYMon to go RED if SSH is ENABLED. It should be
disabled for security, can I make it so it runs the other way around then
normal?

 
I Apologize if this is written somewhere and super easy, I couldn't find it!

 
PS: I had a hard time getting client to work, if I can make a polite
suggestion for the this webpage >>

 
http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/xymon-tips.html#noclient

 
Basically that

 
cat /etc/default/xymon-client | grep CLIENTHOSTNAME 

 
must match

 
XYMon-Server's  /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg.

 
1.2.3.4 CLIENTHOSTNAME # Extra Params

 
I understand that it is implied in the text, but this might make things much
easier to fix for those of us looking to solve the issue of "The client is
using another hostname than what is in the hosts.cfg file."

On 7/21/2016 7:58 AM, FreeSoftwareServers wrote:

I want XYMon to go RED if SSH is ENABLED

0.0.0.0  foo.bar.com  # !ssh

 From the man page for hosts.cfg

By prefixing a test with "!" it becomes a reverse test: Xymon will
expect the service NOT to be available, and send a green status if it
does NOT respond. If a connection to the service succeeds, the status
will go red.

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John Thurston    XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 01:10:18PM -0800, John Thurston wrote:

That's for the remote test.

If you want a "local" test, i.e. one that's based on data sent by the
client, you can put lines the following into your analysis.cfg:

HOST=foo.bar.com
    PORT STATE=LISTEN "LOCAL=%^(0\.0\.0\.0|::)[.:](22|1022|2200|2222)$" MAX=0 "TRACK=Unwanted SSH server"

(We use that to get informed if some user starts a web server on
typical ports like 8000 or 8080 on managed Linux workstations.)

		Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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