Can I monitor SSH / FTP connections with CABOT?

[chinovelasco]

Recently discovered CABOT and was wondering if I can monitor either SSH or FTP connections with it. PS: I am currently using Nodeping for this

[dbuxton]

I don't think there's a plugin for that yet but you can write your own - there's a skeleton available as a base to create such a plugin and you can see an example that we use in production: https://github.com/cabotapp/cabot-check-cloudwatch

[JeanFred]

That use-case sounds similar to #545.

[JeanFred]

I started some bare-bones documentation on writing check plugins at http://cabotapp.com/dev/writing-check-plugins.html

[ralienpp]

I suggested an improvement to the network checker https://github.com/ralienpp/cabot-check-network/blob/master/cabot_check_network/models.py

It would allow you to test the FTP server by sending a command and checking if the server's response matches your expected reply. For example, if your FTP server replies with something that begins with 2 you know it responded with a success code, thus the check is OK.

In the case of SSH, you don't need to send anything, the server will respond right away by sending a string like SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4+deb7u2 - so you can rely on that to determine that it is alive and really acting as an SSH server should (vs merely accepting your TCP connection).

[matt-pilgrim]

No love for https://github.com/arachnys/cabot/issues/564 ? This seems like potentially another special case of a more general ansible check. Edit: What port checks look like in ansible is mentioned here