Alternative to conn test - check for any incoming data from client?
Hi there,
Quite a few of the clients I've setup to be monitored, are behind a firewall which does not allow a response to ping. As such, I can not use the conn test, a function which I do believe is rather important.
As an alternative, I would like to have a (possibly periodic) check, to see whether any data is incoming from these clients, as an alternative to the connection test.. afterall, incoming data = working connection, at least between the client at the Xymon server.
Might any one have any recommendations or perhaps a sample on how to accomplish such a feat?
Kind regards,
Joost Hillen. System Administrator Draads bv.
On 06/02/13 17:34, Joost Hillen wrote:
Hi there,
Quite a few of the clients I've setup to be monitored, are behind a firewall which does not allow a response to ping. As such, I can not use the conn test, a function which I do believe is rather important.
As an alternative, I would like to have a (possibly periodic) check, to see whether any data is incoming from these clients, as an alternative to the connection test.. afterall, incoming data = working connection, at least between the client at the Xymon server.
Might any one have any recommendations or perhaps a sample on how to accomplish such a feat?
If there is no data from the client, then all client status will go purple... is that sufficient ? (30 minute delay)?
Otherwise, setup a ssh test, or http or similar, whatever network service is available....
Regards, Adam
-- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au
Adam Goryachev <mailinglists at ...> writes:
Thank you kindly for the response.
I figured that I could setup an RDP test for the hosts, as most of them are setup so that I can take control of them.
You could write a simple "I'm Alive" client side script and schedule
client launch to run the script every minute with a 2 minute lifetime.
The only thing the sends a green status. If xymon doesn't get a green
status for 2 mintues, it will display purple.
ie.
xymon 1.2.3.4 "status+2m hostname.alive green I'm Alive"
Michael Beatty Sherwin-Williams IT Analyst/Developer michael.beatty at sherwin.com 216-515-7374
On 02/06/2013 01:34 AM, Joost Hillen wrote:
Hi there,
Quite a few of the clients I've setup to be monitored, are behind a firewall which does not allow a response to ping. As such, I can not use the conn test, a function which I do believe is rather important.
As an alternative, I would like to have a (possibly periodic) check, to see whether any data is incoming from these clients, as an alternative to the connection test.. afterall, incoming data = working connection, at least between the client at the Xymon server.
Might any one have any recommendations or perhaps a sample on how to accomplish such a feat?
Kind regards,
Joost Hillen. System Administrator Draads bv.
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Michael Beatty <Michael.Beatty at ...> writes:
I'll give this a shot - I will have to use bbwincmd, but I see that the status message is supported there as well - thank you kindly.
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