[Xymon] How to test remote ports

[Christoph Zechner]

Hi,


On 19/01/2023 08:56, Becker Christian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> another possible scenario could be to put the following in protocols.cfg (in my example to check for port 82):
> 
> [tcp82]
>          port 82
> 
> In your hosts.cfg, you need to put tcp82 just after the hostname that you want to check (don't forget to include the #) - example:
> 
> 1.2.3.4        testhost        # tcp82
> 
> 
> After a while your testhost should show up an additional column tcp82 (it's the name is as defined in your protocols.cfg).
> We are doing that for a lot of hosts.
> Hope it'll help you a bit.

thank you very much, this was it! My check is working now, thanks for 
reminding me about the protocol list. :-)

Best regards
Christoph


> 
> 
> Regards
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 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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