[Xymon] test for absence of http service

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Mar 20 06:46:54 CET 2014


Den 19-03-2014 20:18, John D. Alexander skrev:
> I would like to test for the absence of the http service on a system and
> alert if it responds to http.
>
> This is easy with most of the other network tests using a negation
> (!).    Ideas?

Tests beginning with "http" in hosts.cfg are assumed to be web tests, so 
what you can do is to define another test for just port 80 in 
protocols.cfg, e.g.

	[web]
		port 80
		
and then in hosts.cfg you'll have

	10.0.0.1	myhost	# !web


Regards,
Henrik




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