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| I have a few services where I need to monitor whether the device is listening on a particular port. I can telnet to these ports and a connection is opened and just sits there until a timeout occurs. If I enable local echo then I see what I type but get no response. If I disable the app that is listening on that port then the connection fails immediately. I've tried typing things but seem to get no response so can't do a send & expect. I just want to see if the connection opens or not. Is this possible ? Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question, I'm a newbie to customising WuG Thanks in advance Dan |
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Time Traveler
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| ... What is the service you trying to connect to?
what are the applications that normally use it?
Maybe they have a documentation of the tpe of commands and expect you should have.
Than try those in the script.
Camaleonte
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| In particular, I am trying to connect to monitor TACACS on port 49. I cannot find any docs that specify the command structure and anything I type causes the conenction to drop. Also, I'd like to monitor port 577 which is part of our RAS service that is a port iPass service. Again, I don't get any response from typing when connected to that port. All I want to do is say that this service is up if the connection is accepted and down if its rejected. We do monitor the NT services that listen on these ports but the mindset here is to test it in as real a situation as possible. I have requested some assistance off the application providers but to be honest, I assumed this would be simple, connection made = up, connection refused = down and I thought I was missing something obvious. Thanks for the reply. rgds Dan |
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| Goldy,
if you have no script to use or its not possible to find out what are the needed commands and the expected response, In the script box “type: #” (if you are not going to use scripting you are required to place a comment line in the box)
This will check if the port respond or not. So you can monitor it anyway.
To check if it is all fine, try the standard things like stopping the service and see if Whatsup will give you the down service. On top of it, use the debag log window in Whatsup and see what communication takes place.
Camaleonte
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| Thanks very much Camaleonte, thats exactly what I wanted.... I knew it would be simple. Have a great weekend. Dan |
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Time Traveler
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| You most welcome.
I wish you a great w-e you too.
Camaleonte
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