Monitoring Open Ports

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 29, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Matt Baer wrote:

> Is there a way that Nagios can monitor open ports, even if there  
> isn't anything listening on the destination?  I'd like to monitor my  
> open ports on my firewall JUST to make sure they're open.  I would  
> just specify the port with the normal Nagios command and point it at  
> my public IP address, but obviously, the check will fail unless  
> something is listening on the other end.  Basically I want to port  
> scan specific ports.  Any ideas?

A quick google for 'nagios nmap' yields this result that looks  
promising --

http://ubermonkey.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/nagios-nmap-plugin/

--
Marc


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