Telnet Script Check?

frilby · Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 15

Is there any way of configuring HostMonitor to perform a system check via a telnet login?

I am assuming that it would need to be via a script, but I have not been able to find a command line telnet application.

Would I need to do something in a scripting language like vbscript (which I am unfamiliar with)?

Any suggestions or script examples would be very much apprecaited...

Cheers,
Frilby

Yoorix · Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 177

What OS do you use?

In Windows there is a standard telnet application. Type "telnet.exe" in command line. This file should be located in \Windows\system32 folder.
Type "telnet /h" to view help.

If you are using *nix OS, you should try "telnet" or "ssh".

Regards,
Yoorix

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

If you need some simple test, you probably may use TCP test method. It can establish TCP connection, send some data and check responce.
If you need some complicated data manipulation, you probably should create you own VB, Jave or Perl script.
Its not a problem to find command line telnet utility that can process scripts. Problem is how to return test result to HostMonitor.

Regards
Alex