Plugin for tping?

[Mark Ferlatte]

David R. Guntner said on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:59:49PM -0800:
> I was wondering - is there a plugin that will use tping instead of ping?  I'm behind a firewall that blocks ICMP traffic, and I have hosts that need monitoring on the other side of it.  Since tping uses TCP packets instead of ICMP, it seems like it would be useful as a replacment.  Unfortunately, the output from tping looks different than the output of ping.  So the check_ping plugin doesn't know what to do with it.
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

Try using the check_tcp plugin maybe?

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