You can write a script that downloads somethin via tftp, then set the alerts on if the file exists or not locally.

On 2/27/09, Dominique Frise <dominique.frise at unil.ch> wrote:

Cooper, Ken wrote:

...

Did anyone answer this? I just got the same request and had no luck finding an answer. Thanks Ken Cooper

-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Leavitt [mailto:tleavitt at unameits.com] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 7:44 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] tftp monitor

Couldn't quickly find a FAQ on this, didn't see anything on deadcat.net either... I to monitor whether a TFTP server on the internal net here is up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen?

Thomas

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Hobbit cannot check UDP services. See following discussions for more details:

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/05/msg00035.html http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/11/msg00338.html http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/02/msg00313.html

Dominique

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I was doing pretty much exactly that for my recently-ex employer.

There's a tool called 'curl' which is very good at getting web pages. You would do something like this in bash:

 curl -s -S -L --max-time 5 -o /tmp/page.html http://server.domain.com/
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    # something went wrong.  the return code tells the actual error
    COLOR=red
    MESSAGE="page fetch failed.  curl error $?"
 else
    COLOR=green
    MESSAGE="page fetch successful"
 fi

then use server/bin/bb to send the report to the server. I generally saved the html somewhere in the web server's document tree, then added a link to the report so that Midrange Operations could click through and see the actual page the server returned.

Curl can also tell you how long the transaction took, which you could add to the report in a format that xymon could pick up for graphing.

Ralph Mitchell

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jason Hand <jason at hands4christ.org> wrote:

I cannot find anything mentioning if Hobbit/Xymon can test how long an HTTP or HTTPS page takes to respond and alert on that. In other words, if a site is in a hung state so that it still technically "responds" but it takes 5 seconds for the page to respond how does Hobbit/Xymon handle that? I want to make sure that if a site that we are monitoring takes longer than a couple of seconds to load we are alerted,

Do any of you do a test like that and how are you doing it?

Thanks, Jason

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