How-to: Monitor Ports on Clients through UCS Nagios

Problem

You want to monitor open ports on Windows clients through UCS Nagios.

Resolution

Use the check_tcp delivered by Nagios. It’s parameters are well documented.

For testing purposes you can start the check by
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_tcp -H HOST -p PORT
Replace HOST and PORT accordingly:

To integrate this check into Nagios see documentation.

Note: You can only monitor a single port with this check. To monitor multiple ports you have to create multiple checks in Nagios.

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