Negating a test

[Tedman Eng]

I agree, Nagios is best used to monitor known services.  Using it to find if
any of your servers is running FTP, Quake servers, etc is best done by a
tool made for that purpose.  Nessus, nmap, and Foundstone's SuperScanner are
all good and free tools to find open ports on your servers.  Periodic
vulnerability scans should be part of your (and everyone's) monitoring
regiment.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Bensend [mailto:benny at bennyvision.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:03 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Negating a test
> 
> 
> 
> > If you're looking to stop wares-guys this approach is 
> doomed to fail,
> > since they don't have to run the ftp-server on the standard ftp port
> > (and hardly ever do, since it'd be too easy to find them).
> 
> The behavior he's asking about is also useful as a "sanity check," to
> make sure a service isn't re-enabled by accident, be it by 
> administrative
> mistake or system upgrades/patches.
> 
> Solaris is notorious for re-enabling services after patches 
> are installed,
> for example.
> 
> Benny
> 
> 
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