check for the absence of a service

[Olivier JAN]

You also have the possibility to use the negate plugin (in offcial  
plugins). This is an already written wrapper to swap OK and CRITICAL  
return values ;-)


Olivier Jan
http://nagios-fr.org


Richard Remington <rremington at messagevision.com> a écrit :

> Dear Mr. Dippery, The method I use is the check_nmap_scan plug-in by
> Serg Belokamen, which I've attached to this email. It is written in
> perl and requires that you have nmap installed on your nagios host.
> Basically, you define what ports should be open (and not open) on a
> given host and then it runs a regular check to see if the ports you
> define as open or closed really are open or closed and reports on
> discrepancies. Very handy.
>
> Regards, Richard Remington
> Unix Systems Administrator
>
> Kyle Dippery wrote:
>> 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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