Feature Request. A different type of Custom Monitor.

Some applications cannot be monitored via snmp, or on a TCP port level.

It would be nice if we could configure a monitor that allowed us to specify a local program/script to execute. Inside this script someone could write code to check on the status of such application. Like using Perl's NET::TELNET to access the remote machine and run application specific commands. Inside your custom program/script you would have to determine weather the response was valid. Then you would return either by error code, or by simply printing to the screen a 1 if the app is up, or a 0 if it's down.

By looking at the results of the custom script monitor's response (1 or 0) app manager would be able to determine weather the application is up or not. It could also take the length of time it took to execute the script to determine an application response time.

Possible uses:
*) Your script could send a test print job to an lp spooler to see if it's actually working.
*) Your script could login to a telnet based application, execute functionality, to determine the apps health.
*) Your script could check for a running process if your OS is not supported by app managers snmp.
*) Your script could execute database commands for unsupported database types.

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