Question regarding services without plugins to check them

[matato at pregi.net]

Hi,
  We have these servers running services that doesn't have any plugin
  associated with them(though i'm not so sure). Some of these services
  are:
zebra
ospf
ospfd
bgp
bgpd
netbios-ssn
netview-aix-1
squid

I did a google on squid however and learned from someone that he used
check_tcp for it. Since these services runs on tcp, is it safe to assume
that a tcp checking made by check_tcp will definitely prove that the
service is running ok? If this is so, does it mean that check_tcp will
work for any other services like ftp, smtp, pop etc.???
And one more thing, do I really need to have a database account for mysql
and postgresql to be able to run the check_mysql and check_pgsql plugins?I've tried the one for pgsql because I have a database account and the
plugin worked using the default template of postgresql as its data...
I'm thinking perhaps I'm going to create a dummy template on each servers
running mysql and postgresql and also dummy accounts to make the plugins
work, but I guess that would be troublesome and I'm not so sure if the
database administrators of those servers will allow me to do so.Any idea?



Thanks.








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