External FTP monitoring

[Kroontje]

Hello Zabbix-addicts

I wanna try to check if an external FTP server is accepting my credentials so I can see if the FTP server is up. I found this thread: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10741 and use the cURL commands from there and created an item in Zabbix, but always the return-code is 0? Even when I change the credentials, servername, etc.

The command I use on the shell is: curl ftp://userassword@host >/dev/null 2>&1 | echo $?

I'am not a scripter, sorry, but what's going wrong here? Tried to search on Google, the cURL manual, but no succes!

Thanks in advance!

Edit: When I use no /dev/null I get the errors in the way when I change credentials and/or host:

0

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'host'

AND

0

curl: (67) Access denied: 530

Always that 0 at the beginning and when it succeed I wil get a file list of the FTP server.

[alixen]

You should replace | by ;

curl ftp://user:password@host >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?

Hope this helps
Alixen

[Padawan.AVT]

There even more simple way: just check if your server accepts connection on port 21. If so, FTP is up
Zabbix has build-in feature for that and even some templates have this (FTP check) item

[Kroontje]

You should replace | by ;

curl ftp://user:password@host >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?

Hope this helps
Alixen

That does the trick, thank you!

There even more simple way: just check if your server accepts connection on port 21. If so, FTP is up
Zabbix has build-in feature for that and even some templates have this (FTP check) item

It's not my server, it's external and want to know if I can login, thanks!