[Xymon] Can I monitor how many connections are in TIME_WAIT for a specific port

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>        We are monitoring a particular port that we are having issues
> with. 8022, it's a proxy port for HP NA.
> >>
> >>        Anyway, I have an expect script that goes in and tests the
> functionality of the port. But when it starts to go bad, this script get
> stuck in TIME_WAIT, along with the users connecting to the port.
> >
> > why not use ssh:8022:s in hosts.cfg ?
> >
> >
> >>
> >>        So, can I look at the port data before I try connecting, and if
> there are a bunch of TIME_WAIT connections, just skip the test entirely?
> >>
> >>        I'm running the test from the xymon server, so I was thinking of
> pulling the data out of xymon directly. Would that by xymoncmd?
>
> if you like to pursue your method and just want to count the number of
> TIME_WAIT for port 8022, you can run something like this from xymon
> server
>
> xymon localhost  "clientlog host.example.net section=ports" | grep
> 8022 | grep TIME_WAIT



This works too:

     /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "xymondlog
server.domain.com.ports"

Ralph Mitchell
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