[Xymon] How to test remote ports

[Henrik Juul Størner]

Hi,

why are you trying to do it with a client-side test? You should just add 
an http test to the configuration and run it as a network test. In 
hosts.cfg:

1.2.3.4 myhost  # http://1.2.3.4/

If you must do it client-side, then you should add a test for port 80 
being in LISTEN state. There are several examples of that on the Xymon 
demo site https://www.xymon.com/xymon-cgi/viewconf.sh?client like this 
which tests for port 6543 running a MythTV service

HOST=goya.hswn.rv13
	PORT LOCAL=%[\.:]6543 STATE=LISTEN TEXT=myth


Regards,

Henrik


Den 17.01.2023 kl. 23.29 skrev Christoph Zechner:
> 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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