<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>I need to monitor approximately a dozen TCP ports on a
bunch of remote hosts. What is the easiest way to group these under one column
heading?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I thought about using the PORTS checking ability of
the remote clients, but sadly past history in the case has shown that just
because netstat shows that the port is listening on the remote server, doesn't
mean that you can connect to it (broken firewall rules, or the app not
responding, etc).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In some of the cases, the application is a Tomcat
server, which listens on half a dozen ports. Im thinking the easiest way to
handle that is to add "tomcat" in bb-services, and then in bb-hosts I could
specify the ports via "tomcat:8001 tomcat:8002 tomcat:8020 tomcat:8009" and so
on.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is there are not only tomcats, but
other apps and services as well (squid proxies, oracle OCM's, and random java
servlets) that wouldn't fit under just a "tomcat" column, and I don't really
want to add so many columns for these custom apps.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there any way to force these remote tcp checks
to appear under the "ports" column?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Charles</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>