Is there a way in NPM to monitor services on a node?
We often need to check that a port on a remote host is accepting connections. We do this primarily with vendors that we have VPN connections too. They don't permit 'ICMP Pings" across the tunnel so we want to verify that HTTP is available, or sometimes random ports.
It looks like SAM and APM have the ability to do this, but I don't want to buy that product just for this one feature. SAM didn't have all the features we needed as network admins, but NPM lacks this feature, which we would need to use more often than our Windows Admin counterparts that would use SAM.
If this is not possible does anyone have a work around? install Nagios (Free) and just have it do SNMP traps to the NPM Server to be alerted on?