---
name: "nsmon"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "nsmon"
version: "2.3e-4"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nsmon"
---

# nsmon(8)

Network Security MONitor

## NAME

nsmon - Network Security MONitor

## SYNOPSIS

**nsmon** *\[--version \| -v \| --help \| -h\]* *\[config-file\]*\

## DESCRIPTION

**nsmon** is a program which can check your servers which are connected to the  internet/intranet via TCP/IP. The checks are the following: ping and port check.  Ping check is a simple 5 ICMP echo with a timout. Port check is a simple [**connect**(2)](/connect/2.md) via TCP socket. If one of the checks was unsuccessfull **nsmon** sends a mail to the admin of that host which was wrong. You have to define an smtp mailer,  **nsmon** will connet into it directly and send an RFC compatible message.

## OPTIONS

The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Show version of program.

## PARAMETERS

There is only and one parameter which is the name of the config-file. If no parameters were added,  **nsmon** will get the config from /etc/nsmon.conf.

For the config options read the readme.html in /usr/share/doc/nsmon

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tibor Koleszar \<t.koleszar@somogy.hu\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Last modify: Mon Feb 15 11:25:06 1999