Re: [monit] FTP monitoring

[Giovanni D'Cristina]

Martin,

Works nicely now. Thank you for the update.

Best regards,
   John

Martin Pala wrote:
> I have set ftp server with multiline greetings and reproduced the 
> problem - the fix was checked in to development repository, you can get 
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> Thanks for report,
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> Martin Pala wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > please can you provide output of ftp session beginning?
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> > It is sufficient to use for example wireshark to catch the data or 
> > telnet to mimic the session:
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> > 1.) telnet 10.201.56.42 21 (monit expects "220 ...")
> > 2.) type: "quit" (monit expects "221 ...")
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> > and copy the output.
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> > I think the error could be caused by multiline greeting, we can fix it 
> > if it will be the case.
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> > Thanks,
> > Martin
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> > Giovanni D'Cristina wrote:
> > > I want to monitor whether I can reach a FTP server on a remote host.
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> > > So I have added the following
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> > > 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
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> > > But in the syslog I get
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> > > 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
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> > > and monit sets the alert.
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> > > 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?
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> > > Regards,
> > >    John
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