From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 18 03:50:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED421106566C for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-13.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-13.bluehost.com [69.89.18.113]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5FD28FC16 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9636 invoked by uid 0); 18 Dec 2009 03:50:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2009 03:50:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=fegltMsc3A3IZ0z02q0Ifo6gGIagBnUd2lGI5AiRcQnB1zTWSPY9m9i3LMG0KjoC4ofjytZWiQKe272LLhLK0EiiTbb80YZEDS98ScRIaGocKD5xtyNCw71CqM923jGS; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NLTrB-00060A-Us for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:50:23 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:43:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:43:08 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091218034308.GB36630@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4B295D72.2030804@pdc4u.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B295D72.2030804@pdc4u.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:24 -0000 --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:21:38PM -0700, Michael Goodell wrote: > Hello . . . >=20 > Looking for a *simple* protocol monitoring solution to test connectivity= =20 > of various facets of a system, i.e. HTTP / HTTPS / POP3 / SMTP etc. I am= =20 > not looking, and don't want to install a *heavy* application like Nagios= =20 > etc, but rather something much more simple. >=20 > I have seen checkservice (/usr/ports/sysutils/checkservice) in the past= =20 > and that looked quite simple to implement. Another question is there=20 > anything more preferred that checkservice that anyone knows about? >=20 > 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). --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksq+kwACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVb5ACgwPRfMePnS+9ruOTPJ3Qzpl0c E/4An1uLj6t8pXl5+bKB5gl3pOIs24UQ =oQPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--