Re: [monit] FTP monitoring

[Martin Pala]

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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