How to Count/Graph/Check TCP connection States Table with NetXMS, ...

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Useful for:

• monitoring number of connections to specific TCP port
• checking if service is listening on specific port
• statistics of TCP connections table
• checking load on specific service as number of connections
• detecting TCP connection state based attacks and abnormalities

Requirements:

• agent on *nix system with net-snmp tools
• bash,grep,cat,snmpnetstat

Links:
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/man/snmpnetstat.html
snmp_stat.sh attached

How-to:
1.
configure agent on node that has snmp connection to nodes you want to monitor:
ExternalParameter = TCP.Connections(*):/opt/netxms/scripts/snmp_stat.sh $1 $2 $3 $4

add nodes you want to monitor to trusted nodes on that node

parameters:
# $1 = hostname, monitored node ip
# $2 = community, monitored node snmp community string
# $3 = TCP state {ESTABLISHED|LISTEN|TIMEWAIT|TIMECLOSE|FINWAIT1|FINWAIT2|SYNSENT|SYNRECV}
# $4 = TCP port for detailed {ESTABLISHED|LISTEN}

configure DCI's on node you want to monitor and specify node from 1.
as proxy node when creating DCI

5. examples DCI's:

# all established connections
TCP.Connections(192.168.1.1,public,ESTABLISHED)

# all established connections to TCP port 80
TCP.Connections(192.168.1.1,public,ESTABLISHED,80)

# will return 1 if service is listening on TCP port 25
TCP.Connections(192.168.1.1,public,LISTEN,25)

Feel free to use. Suggestions, spelling and bug fixes welcome.

Ales

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snmp_stat.sh