Plugin for tping?

[Jason Martin]

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I think what you are looking for is a check_tcp that treats both 
connection refused and a connection as a 'OK', ie the only thing that 
causes it to fail is a timeout. I don't think such a thing currently 
exists but check_tcp could probably be extended to do so.

- -Jason Martin


 On Fri, 5 
Dec 2003, David R. Guntner wrote:

> [Anyone know how to make Outlook quote a message *correctly*??]
> 
> That would be great if there was a specific port I wanted to watch. :-)
> I'm just looking to do the occasional ping if possible.  tping would let
> me do that through the firewall.
> 
>             --Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Ferlatte [mailto:ferlatte at cryptio.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:14 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for tping?
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> M
> 
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