If you are using 5.1 look at "nvsniffer" it polls tcp ports per host as
you define. There is only a man page for it. Not well documented yet
but it does some good stuff.
Cheryl Krupczak wrote:
>
> >
> >Is there a way in Netview (or related parts of the product suite) to
> >remotely monitor the availability of standardservices like SMTP, POP3 etc.
> >on a particular server without a local agent?
>
> SystemEDGE, an SNMP systems and application management agent from
> Empire Technologies, does this.
>
> live example:
> http://www.empiretech.com/stats/index.html
>
> The example shows SystemEDGE being used to autonomously monitor
> service response time and application availability for services
> such as DNS, Web Service, FTP, NNTP, POP, and SMTP.
>
> SystemEDGE is actually doing a null transaction to the remote
> server so you see the actual response that an end-user would.
>
> The information is available as a MIB variable that you can poll
> from your management station, or better yet, use the agent's
> threshold monitoring to monitor the response time and send up
> a trap if it exceeds some threshold.
>
> As a pure-SNMP agent, SystemEDGE interoperates with any SNMP-complient
> management station like NetView. TAVVE provides NetView "snap-in"
> reports for SystemEDGE.
>
> If you want to give SystemEDGE a whirl, you can get a free eval
> by filling out the evaluation request form on the web page:
> http://www.empiretech.com
>
> - cheryl
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Holger Heimann
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