Re: Testing connectivity to a SMPP-server

[Martin Pala]

On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Marcus Mülbüsch wrote:

> Am 14.09.2011 13:49, schrieb Jan-Henrik Haukeland:
>> 
>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Marcus Mülbüsch wrote:
>> 
>>>   How do I write a statement that will do one test after the other; and 
>>> only if the first test succeeded?
>> 
>> This cannot (yet) be expressed in the config language. If-tests are separate 
>> statements without an 'else if' part. This will be changed in a later 
>> release, though not optimal, maybe you can use the new check program 
>> statement and put the test in a script executed by Monit?
> 
>   monit 5.3 is not yet in the gentoo portage tree; so this has to wait. 
> Temporarily we can live with that behaviour.
> 
>   However; currently monit cannot connect to the remote SMPP-Server. Since 
> I'm unable to login via telnet, too, I consider that a problem not related to 
> monit - to be solved tomorrow :)
> 
>  But just as a precaution: Can I increase the loglevel so that I can watch 
> what monit sends and gets back? So I can watch whether I mis-formated the 
> string, that is filled with hexcodes?


Yes, if you enable the debug mode (the "-v" command-line option), monit will 
log what it sent and received. Another option could be tcpdump/snoop/wireshark.

I can implement the native SMPP protocol test (could be useful) - can you 
provide access to the SMPP server?

Regards,
Martin