Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Hari Sekhon
Marc Powell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Loe Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:01 AM Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nmap Couldn't you write a script

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Brian Loe
On 8/17/06, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You sure can, $HOSTADDRESS$. The recommendation was from the plugin > author but what he means is use an ip in your host{} definition's > host_address field instead of it's DNS name. > > -- > Marc Again, I need to look at my configs. I'm thinki

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Maxwell,Brady
On 8/17/06, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /nagios-plugins-1.4.3/contrib. -- >Well, there you go. :) I'm new to Nagios so perhaps this too is a >stupid question, but when you configure a check, can't you use a >variable for the host in the check command line? I guess I need to go >look

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Loe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:22 AM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nmap > > On 8/17/06, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Brian Loe
On 8/17/06, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /nagios-plugins-1.4.3/contrib. -- > > [contrib]$ ./check_nmap.py --help > > check_nmap plugin for Nagios > Copyright (c) 2000 Jacob Lundqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > License: GPL > Version: 1.21 > If possible, supply an IP address for the host ad

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Loe > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:01 AM > Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nmap > > Couldn't you write a s

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Brian Loe
Couldn't you write a script that diffs nmap results and report "0" if diff doesn't come back with anything and "1" otherwise? nmap could be cronned to run hourly - or so - and the results diffed with a baseline file resulting in the code which nagios can cat... or something. Sorry, not a developer

Re: [Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Hari Sekhon
Robin-David Hammond%KB3IEN wrote: > Has anyone used nagios to track changes in the open ports on remote hosts? > > I'm thinking that if the output of nmap changes one hour to the next that > something ought to be investigated. > > Sure it might be nothing, but might be a "OOh a root-kit! How Nice!

[Nagios-users] nmap

2006-08-17 Thread Robin-David Hammond%KB3IEN
Has anyone used nagios to track changes in the open ports on remote hosts? I'm thinking that if the output of nmap changes one hour to the next that something ought to be investigated. Sure it might be nothing, but might be a "OOh a root-kit! How Nice!" moment. Robin-David Hammond KB3IEN