[hobbit] Using Hobbit to monitor a specific port for availability?

[Charles Jones]

There are 2 ways you can go about this.

1. Edit bb-services and create a new test called "javaprog" or whatever 
you want to call it. Creating a new port test is pretty easy and looking 
at the examples in bb-services and/or the man page should get you there, 
heck I will just tell you:

[javaprog]
port 8888

After you add that to bb-services, you would add "javaprog" to your 
bb-hosts file for that host.  You would then get a column called 
"javaprog" that showed it's status.

2. You can also define a local port test on the server that is running 
the java program (assuming its one that you have a hobbit client on). 
This will basically look at the ouput of netstat and alert if the port 
is not in a LISTEN state.  For this read the "Ports" section of the 
hobbit-clients.cfg file and man page.

-Charles

Callahan, Tom wrote:
> How would I get hobbit to monitor a specific port to ensure it is 
> listening? For instance, I want to monitor a Java program that listens 
> on port 8888, but just want hobbit to check if it can connect, and 
> then disconnect.
> How could I do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Callahan 

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