On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Callahan, Tom <CallahanT at tessco.com> 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?
I've got a couple of systems on my display that are "port pings". There may be a more efficient way to do it, but what I have in bb-hosts is:
a.b.c.d hostname.domain.com # telnet:1494The Hobbit network tester telnets to port 1494 and either gets a connection or not. If not, that's a red dot. I have no idea what's supposed to be on port 1494, but there's a little bit of text returned that says "ICA" so maybe it's a Citrix server.
On several recent occasions when it failed, the response logged was:
Service telnet on hostname.domain.com is not OK : Service unavailable (Connection reset by peer)
Ralph Mitchell