On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:06:01AM -0800, Kevan Benson wrote: > On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:39, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to test one specific port on a serie of Ip addresses that I own, > > I thought about using nmap or telnet, but both return the same value, no > > matter if the port is open or filtered. > > > > Anyone has an idea, before I start scripting to analyse the output of > > the command? > > If you're using nagios for any monitoring, there's a nmap plugin in the > contrib directory of the nagios-plugins package. It will notify you if the > host displays any open ports not pre-defined as open for that host. And there's a check_tcp plugin for the simpler single-port case. You can also use the plugins directly even if you're not using nagios. The nagios-plugins package is available from Dag's rpmforge repo. Cheers, Gavin -- Gavin Carr Open Fusion - Open Source Business Solutions [ Linux - Perl - Apache ] http://www.openfusion.com.au - Fashion is a variable, but style is a constant - Programming Perl