Recommended Plugin for Monitoring iptables

[Klaus Umbach]

On 20/01/09 16:00, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Hi there --
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I simply want to ensure that 'iptables -vnL' 
> comes back with output indicating that firewall rules are in effect.  

I would write a script myself, that compares "iptables -vnL >
/tmp/iptables.txt" with "iptables -vnL"

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Umbach [mailto:treibholz at sozial-inkompetent.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:27 PM
> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Recommended Plugin for Monitoring iptables
> 
> On 20/01/09 15:09, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> > Is there a recommended plugin for monitoring iptables? The Nagios server is 
> > version 2.6, and the version of the bundled plugins is currently 1.4.5.
> Thanks. 
> 
> what exactly do you want to monitor?
> 
> -
> 	Klaus
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