Monitoring Connection attempts

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Hi All,

Before I start coding my own plugin to do this, does anyone know of a
plugin that monitors the number of external connection attempts over a
given period of time for a given service and sends alerts accordingly?

I've noticed on a number of servers that we maintain recently that
there are unauthorised attempts to connect via SSH/FTP.  These appear
in the log files about 2 seconds apart and are obviously automated.  

We've got Logcheck in place which alerts us to this kind of thing
already, however I like the idea of a nice visual/audible alert (we all
use the nagios-plugin for firefox here).

Like I say, if it doesn't exist, I'll try and write it, I just thought
someone might have a way of doing this already!

Cheers,

M.
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