Any good plugins to monitori the number of FTP connections?

[dpasacritacrown]

Hi everyone, are there any good plugins out there for monitoring the number of FTP connection on a windows FTP server? I thought maybe I could make something with the netstat command, but I'm finding it kinda difficult since it's passive FTP. It's a windows 2003 server.

Also, I'm not super familiar with windows or FTP, which is another complication.

[rkennedy]

What software is the 2003 server running for FTP?

A netstat should work, you would just need to filter for established connections. On linux, for example -

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[root@nagiosxi etc]# netstat -tap|grep 22
tcp        0     64 android-785c9e376c9d322:ssh rkennedy.nagios.local:50802 ESTABLISHED 1448/sshd
[root@nagiosxi etc]# netstat -tap|grep 22|wc -l
1

I'm not sure of the Powershell capabilities for W2K3 though, or what's supported back then to be honest.

[dpasacritacrown]

I eventually got something working. Basically I made a batch script with this command:

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for /f "delims=" %%i in ('netstat -b ^| find "coresrvr.exe" ^| find /c /v ""') do set output=%%i

That returned what I wanted, because every connection to FTP had that "coresrvr.exe" string in there, so that returns the correct value. Now a problem is that it times out occasionally, because the command takes a while to run, but I got around this by just disabling the unknown notification for it. It's a bit sloppy but it's the best I was able to do.

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