If you're looking to monitor the process remotely, something like this might
do:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Socket;
my ($remote,$port, $iaddr, $piaddr, $proto);
$remote = shift || die;
$port = shift || 1241;
$iaddr = inet_aton($remote) || die "no host: $remote";
$piaddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);
$proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";
if (connect(SOCK, $piaddr)) {
print "Host alive\n";
} else {
print "Nessusd seems dead\n";
}
If you're monitoring from the nessus server on linux something like "pidof
nessusd" might work
if you're on non-linux unix, something like " pidof = `ps auxww | awk
'/nessusd/ {print $2}'` "
if these don't help...send some more detail and the check should be trivial.
John Lampe
https://f00dikator.hn.org/
"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the
Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for
the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me - and by
that time there was nobody left to speak up."
--Martin Niemvller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Magoon, Sanjay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Monitoring tool
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone created a nessusd monitoring process? I need something that
will
> > actively monitor the nessusd daemon on my server.
>
> tail -f /usr/local/var/nessus/logs/nessusd.messages ?
>
> --
> Michael Scheidell
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