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Hi guys.
I hope you can help me with this one.
I need to monitor some services. For example I need to check if a SMTP service is up. Can I just send a telnet command like:
"Telnet webmail.mycompany.com 25" and If I get a response then it Is up.
A need a kind of method to send data to a URL/IP on a specific port number and send a command/data and retrieve an answer and based on the answer I do some logic(I can do this part fine).
I hope you can help me with this one.
I need to monitor some services. For example I need to check if a SMTP service is up. Can I just send a telnet command like:
"Telnet webmail.mycompany.com 25" and If I get a response then it Is up.
A need a kind of method to send data to a URL/IP on a specific port number and send a command/data and retrieve an answer and based on the answer I do some logic(I can do this part fine).
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Why don't you integrate a monitoringserver? (You can install this even on your own pc). Easy to view what is running and what not. Sends messages that a particular service is down. An example of an easy to set up, scalable monitoringtool is Cacti.
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Well i need to have this running all the time and it has to be done remotely. Also I want the program to send a SMS when problem occurres
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I will get back after some tests.
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So the telnet and so forth is fine. What about a Exchange server that doesn't use POP3 but recieves emails directly? How do I handle this one?