[Xymon] How to test remote ports

[Josh Luthman]

Is 1.2.3.4 your Xymon server or the host IP?  The 1.2.3.4 in your example
is the local addr that it would request from.  If you don't care, you could
use *:80.

https://xymon.com/help/manpages/man5/analysis.cfg.5.html

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 5:52 PM Christoph Zechner <zechner at vrvis.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to establish a remote port check, but cannot get it to
> work. After reading the man pages and the corresponding topics on the
> mailing list, I've configured a test like this:
>
> PORT REMOTE=1.2.3.4:80
>
> but the remote port always comes back as down, even though it is up. Am
> I doing something wrong? Local port checks all work perfectly, only the
> remote ones do not.
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?
>
> Context: I am using local mode on all clients, so I'm putting all my
> checks in /etc/xymon/localclient.cfg, but this should not effect this
> check, right?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards
> Christoph Zechner
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