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Tom's avatar
Tom
8 years ago

Monitor arbitrary TCP port

Greetings LM community. We would like to monitor arbitrary TCP ports. The result we would like to achieve is a simple service is listening or not result. Is this possible ?   ...
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  • Jon_Blake's avatar
    Jon_Blake
    8 years ago

    Hi Tom, 

    No, none of the monitored instances that you add via port-multi will count as a license slot.  

    -Jon

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
4 years ago

It's there. There's just a different search box for locator codes. (Yes, I know.) In the Exchange, in the top right, there's a locator search option. 

I have enhanced my version of this DS to include automatic discovery using this discovery script: 

try{
    hostProps.get("pingmulti.targets").tokenize(",").each{
        target = it.tokenize("|")
        println(target[0] + "##" + target[1])
    }
    return 0
} catch (Exception e){return 1}

Set a property called "pingmulti.targets" in the format:
target1_IP/FQDN|target1_Name,target2_IP/FQDN|target2_Name

This also allows the appliesTo to be simplified to just "pingmulti.targets". 

However, keep in mind that this still only pings from the collector. If you want to ping from the target device to some other destination, consider these two DSs. Only works on Windows or Linux, but that's usually what people are going for.