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

[Root, Paul]

That's what I need.

Thanks!

Paul Root    - Engineer III
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:44 AM
> To: Root, Paul
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Can I monitor how many connections are in
> TIME_WAIT for a specific port
>
> 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
>
>
>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Paul.
> >>
> >> Paul Root    - Engineer III
> >> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> >>
> >>
> >>
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