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Hi Everyone,
I was asked by my CIO to monitor a specific port on a remote host (WAN host) This port is not a standard port (I'm trying to monitor TCP port 9000) I tried to setup a generic IP device but that looks like it will only monitor ping. I also tried the TCP/UDP port wizard, but I don't know what to send to it (It will not take a SSH login)
Can I make the send string a general HTTP Get? The server should respond with some XML code. Is that good enough for the check to work?
Sorry I have always done local service checks on our network and never had to setup a WAN check before.
Thank you for any help
-Jeff

If you're just doing a web request on a different port you can use the Website wizards and can specify the port and some text you expect it to output (or a regex query) on the next page of the wizard, that should do what you're looking for.

See the links here at the bottom:

https://www.nagios.com/solutions/website-monitoring/

But this one specifically:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf