Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

[Chad Perrin]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:21:38PM -0700, Michael Goodell wrote:
> Hello . . .
> 
> Looking for a *simple* protocol monitoring solution to test connectivity 
> of various facets of a system, i.e. HTTP / HTTPS / POP3 / SMTP etc. I am 
> not looking, and don't want to install a *heavy* application like Nagios 
> etc, but rather something much more simple.
> 
> I have seen checkservice (/usr/ports/sysutils/checkservice) in the past 
> and that looked quite simple to implement. Another question is there 
> anything more preferred that checkservice that anyone knows about?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any direction.

Does tcpdump do what you need?  It's pretty slim (makes Wireshark look
huge by comparison) and easily scripted (since it's a command line tool).

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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