[hobbit] Passive FTP test?

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Thu Aug 10 15:57:46 CEST 2006


Go to Help, Configuring Monitoring, hobbit-clients.cfg.  Scroll way down 
to the 'PORTS STATUS COLUMN SETTINGS'.  But this will only work for 
Unix/Linux clients, I do not know if BBWin has implemented this.

Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> Okay, I can’t seem to find how you implement this.  (Typically, I’ve 
> only modified the bb-hosts file.)
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> Thanks,
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> *Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. <mailto:FRamaekers at AILife.com>*
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Jerry Yu [mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:54 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Passive FTP test?
> 
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> 
> it depends on how confident you want to be. a true active test will tell 
> you a real user can log in and do their stuff, while [port] and [procs] 
> can only tell you 'probably'.
> 
> On 8/9/06, *Larry Barber* <lebarber at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lebarber at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> You can also use the procs test to make sure the ftpd process is running.
> 
> Thanks,]
> 
> Larry Barber
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> On 8/9/06, *Rich Smrcina* < rsmrcina at wi.rr.com 
> <mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com>> wrote:
> 
> Use the ports test.
> 
> Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
>>  Is there a more passive method to test FTP.  Apparently on BulletProof
>>  FTP it's logging each ftp test and creating an extensive log file.
>>
>>  TIA,
>>
>>  Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
>>  Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE
>>  American Income Life Insurance Company
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