Re: [monit] FTP monitoring

[Martin Pala]

I have set ftp server with multiline greetings and reproduced the 
problem - the fix was checked in to development repository, you can get 
it here:

http://code.google.com/p/monit/source/checkout

Thanks for report,

Martin




Martin Pala wrote:
> Hello,
>
> please can you provide output of ftp session beginning?
>
> It is sufficient to use for example wireshark to catch the data or 
> telnet to mimic the session:
>
> 1.) telnet 10.201.56.42 21 (monit expects "220 ...")
> 2.) type: "quit" (monit expects "221 ...")
>
> and copy the output.
>
> I think the error could be caused by multiline greeting, we can fix it 
> if it will be the case.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
>
>
> Giovanni D'Cristina wrote:
> > I want to monitor whether I can reach a FTP server on a remote host.
> >
> > So I have added the following
> >
> > check host QTCP with address 10.201.56.42
> >       if failed port 21 protocol ftp for 1 cycles then alert
> >       alert address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> with 
> > mail-format {
> >          subject: FTP Unreachable from  Server
> >       } with reminder on 30 cycles
> >
> > But in the syslog I get
> >
> > Jul 27 15:45:58 mdsg monit[3132]: FTP error: 220 Connection will close 
> > if idle more than 10 minutes.
> > Jul 27 15:45:58 mdsg monit[3132]: 'QTCP' failed protocol test [FTP] at 
> > INET[10.201.56.42:21 <http://10.201.56.42:21>] via TCP
> >
> > and monit sets the alert.
> >
> > My understanding is that internally monit should see the 220 message 
> > as a good thing, but it seems to see it
> > as a failure.
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > Regards,
> >    John
> >
> >
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