[hobbit] Using Hobbit to monitor a specific port for availability?

[Josh Luthman]

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 <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Callahan, Tom <CallahanT at tessco.com>
> 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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