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ipSentry Monitoring Features - Scripted TCP IP
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The ipSentry Scripted TCP/IP Monitor Add-In enhances the basic
TCP/IP Network monitoring functionality by providing a scripted
approach to send and receive requirements over an established TCP/IP
connection.
In using the basic TCP Network monitoring functionality provided in
the base ipSentry application, you are provided with the ability to
connect, send some data and/or expect a specific amount of data. In
contrast, when you utilize the Scripted TCP/IP Monitor (and
alert) add-in, you can extend this to complete an entire session and
test various aspects of an RFC compliant or proprietary TCP/IP
protocol dialogue.
For example, the basic monitor will connect to an SMTP server and
test to see if the appropriate SMTP response is received. With this
add-in however, you can actually script out the entire sequence of
events that are required to send an email message through the
server.
The add-in is also very useful for proprietary TCP/IP implementations
which may require non-standards based inputs and outputs,
proprietary TCP/IP devices, and any other area where a simple Send and
Receive dialogue of TCP/IP is required.
This component can be used as both a monitoring entry as well as an
alerting action which means that TCP/IP accessible devices which accept
telnet or raw TCP/IP connections to perform certain actions can be
access and scripted as an alerting action.
Once again, this is for the power-user adding a lot more power than
the basic TCP/IP network monitoring functionality in the ipSentry
base application. This add-in expands on the simple Send/Receive
functionality required to monitor most TCP/IP connections by allowing a
full session dialogue. With this add-in, you can script logins to
POP3 servers, send test or heartbeat SMTP messages, login to FTP
servers, or virtually any other clear-text top based dialogue over a
raw TCP/IP connection. We have included sample scripts to get you
started for such items as POP3 login, SMTP test just up to the point
of sending, and an FTP login and directory change.
Evaluate this feature in the fully functional
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