Telnet Scenario

Prerequisites

Centreon Plugin

Install this plugin on each needed poller:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Protocol-Telnet

Remote server

The remote server must have a Telnet service running and available. You need to create a JSON scenario file. An example:

[
    {"cmd": "open", "options": { "Host": "10.0.0.1", "Port": "23", "Timeout": "30" } },
    {"cmd": "login", "options": { "Name": "admin", "Password": "pass", "Timeout": "5" } },
    {"cmd": "waitfor", "options": { "Match": "/string/", "Timeout": "5" } },
    {"cmd": "put", "options": { "String": "/mystring/", "Timeout": "5" } },
    {"cmd": "close" }
]

Centreon Configuration

Create a new Telnet Scenario server

Go to "Configuration > Hosts" and click "Add". Then, fill the form as shown by the following table :

Field	Value
Host name	Name of the host
Alias	Host description
IP	Host IP Address
Monitored from	Monitoring Poller to use
Host Multiple Templates	App-Protocol-Telnet-custom

Click "Save" button.