TCP Connection Monitor

TCP Connection Monitoring checks whether a TCP service is up or down. AppPerfect offers TCP Connection Monitoring in the form of AppPerfect Agentless Monitor. AppPerfect's Agentless Monitoring is the ideal solution to monitor your TCP connection in order to determine the number of connections established, closed etc. TCP Connection Monitoring with AppPerfect is extremely lightweight and adds negligible overhead to target system while monitoring.

This chapter describes how to work with TCP monitor provided by AppPerfect Monitor to monitor your TCP connections and connection count.

Managing monitors

To view the list of all available monitors defined with the AppPerfect Monitor, log in as administrator and click the "Monitors" tab. A list of all defined monitors is displayed. You can edit the properties of a monitor by clicking it and updating the properties page for that monitor.

To delete a monitor, select the checkbox to the left of that monitor and click "Delete". When you delete a monitor, you may choose to preserve the data already recorded for that monitor or you may delete the monitor along with all its historical data.

Defining a new monitor

Please refer to the chapter Managing Monitors for the common settings required.

1. TCP Connection Monitor
2. TCP Connection Count Monitor

TCP Connection Monitor

To monitor the TCP connection, you will need to provide following additional details:

• Operating System: Select the operating system on which you want to monitor TCP connection.
• Protocol: Select the protocol to connect to remote machine.
• Port: Specify the connection port, default port number is 22
• Authentication Method: Select the method to authenticate remote machine.
• Username: If you have selected authentication method as password, Provide User name to connect to the machine.
• Password: Password for the user name above.
• Key File Path: If you have selected authentication method as private key, provide the path of private key file.

TCP Connection Count Monitor

To monitor the TCP connection count, you will need to provide following additional details:

• Operating System: Select the operating system on which you want to monitor TCP connection.
• Protocol: Select the protocol to connect to remote machine.
• Connection Port: Specify the connection port, default port number is 22
• Authentication Method: Select the method to authenticate remote machine.
• Username: If you have selected authentication method as password, Provide User name to connect to the machine.
• Password: Password for the user name above.
• Key File Path: If you have selected authentication method as private key, provide the path of private key file.
• Port: Specify the port for which you want to count tcp connections.
• State: Select the connection state you want to monitor.