Port monitoring reference

Overview

Port monitoring is a generic TCP-IP protocol monitoring tool. MagiKmon can connect to any port of any server and check if the target is reachable and accept new connections. This test doesn't allow to check if the service is really able to answer real client requests.

Configuration parameters

Description

This is the name of the service.

Host

This is the name or the IP address of the target server.

Port

This is the port the agent will try to connect to.

Banner

Some protocols display a welcome message when the connection is established. You can check if the message is the expected one. If the protocol in use don't display any banner, let this field empty. If the banner don't match the message, then the agent will report an error.

Options

SSL is an encryption layer used to secure un-secure protocols. Select this option to force the agent to make the SSL hand checking after the connection.