Monitoring a tcp port using Zenoss

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it's possible to monitor a general purpose service, listening on port 5896, i.e.: tcp://production.enterprise.com:5896

I just want know if this service is alive or offline, like a fast "nc -zv <host> <port>" command.

Regards,

And Past

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You should be able to use the zenoss IP service monitoring. It basically uses SNMP to execute a telnet to the the port specified and send the response back over SNMP.

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