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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:43:08 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question
Message-ID:  <20091218034308.GB36630@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <4B295D72.2030804@pdc4u.com>
References:  <4B295D72.2030804@pdc4u.com>

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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:21:38PM -0700, Michael Goodell wrote:
> Hello . . .
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> Looking for a *simple* protocol monitoring solution to test connectivity=
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> of various facets of a system, i.e. HTTP / HTTPS / POP3 / SMTP etc. I am=
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> not looking, and don't want to install a *heavy* application like Nagios=
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> etc, but rather something much more simple.
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> I have seen checkservice (/usr/ports/sysutils/checkservice) in the past=
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> and that looked quite simple to implement. Another question is there=20
> anything more preferred that checkservice that anyone knows about?
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> 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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