check for the absence of a service

[Randal, Phil]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Dippery [mailto:kyle at engr.uky.edu] 
Sent: 09 July 2009 16:08
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] check for the absence of a service

Is there an easy way to use nagios to check for the absence of a
service?

I want to have nagios monitor SMTP and a few other services on hosts
that aren't supposed to be running them, and tell me if they suddenly
get turned on.

Is there a plugin for this, or a way to trick an existing plugin to make
it work?  I suppose if nothing else I can write a wrapper for check_smtp
or check_tcp to swap the OK and CRITICAL return values, but it'd be much
easier if someone else has already done it...

Cheers,
Kyle
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