ping host via nsclient host

[martijnmoi]

hello, i am implementing Nagios XI in our company and i've got the following challange.

nagios now has around 170 hosts and around 700 running services and the project is almost finished.

the last step is to monitor external FTP servers. These FTP servers are not ours, zo we can not make any changed to them.

the thing is, most of the FTP servers are configured that only a specified IP may connect to the server.

this server is an Windows 2012 server, so monitoring will be done with NSClient++.

My question:

what is the best way to monitor the FTP server connections?
(ping on port 21 is one, but i need to ensure the login credentials work so this needs to be monitored too.)

i am open for idea's!

[rkennedy]

You should be able to use perl scripts in conjunction with NSClient++ on the W2K12 server. I found this one, which will need you to set the authentication settings in the file.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... tp/details

Just to make sure - is the IP that the W2K12 machine has allowed to talk to the FTP servers?

[martijnmoi]

You should be able to use perl scripts in conjunction with NSClient++ on the W2K12 server. I found this one, which will need you to set the authentication settings in the file.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... tp/details

Just to make sure - is the IP that the W2K12 machine has allowed to talk to the FTP servers?

thank you, i will look in to this script

- the W2K12 server has the only that may talk to the FTP servers

[tmcdonald]

Let us know how that works out!

Also, I will be moving this into the XI section since it is a question dealing with XI, not just Core.

[martijnmoi]

this works, started hardcore testing.

thanks for your support.

[mcapra]

Is it ok if we lock this topic and mark the issue as resolved?

[martijnmoi]

Yes that is ok.

Thank everyone.