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Forum for English speaking Miranda NG users => Miranda NG general talk => Topic started by: carlos on 07 01 2015, 15:09:59

Title: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: carlos on 07 01 2015, 15:09:59

Hello everybody,

after checking, trying, read, re-read and lots of things for loooong time, I need to ask for help, if someone could give some light...
I'm trying to monitor MirandaNG running as a service by monitoring the service. The problem is that if MirandaNG is running as a service, no message can be sent.
So, the other option, the choosen, is to leave MirandaNG as a process, and monitoring the process (IP/Port associated), but I can not find the way to force MirandaNG process to run in a specific port always. By doing it, checkin IP/Port I could confirm if MIrandaNG process is running or not, and do the appropiate tasks.
Could, please, anybody tell me if it's possible or not, and in case yes how to do it?

Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: ghazan on 07 01 2015, 15:21:30

you don't have to run M on the specific port to verify whether it's running or not
just open a process or use utilities like tasklist

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq miranda32.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "miranda32.exe">nul
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" echo Miranda is running

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: carlos on 08 01 2015, 11:01:11

Thanks for your help!!

My doubt is if it could be possible  to configure MirandaNG Clients to listen on a specific port.
The reason why is that we are already using an internal-official tool to monitor everything that, for example, check IP&Port.

I think it's better to have one single monitor point instead of several monitoring tools.

Thanks in advance and regards

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: ghazan on 08 01 2015, 13:17:59

Miranda NG typically doesn't listen on any ports, because it's useless.
Almost all protocols are used to connect to another servers, using the random local port as src addr

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: White-Tiger on 08 01 2015, 15:43:39

well... if he installs the HTTPServer or FTPFile addon, he might have a port "something" listens on^^
Still agree that using a port for this kind of thing is a really bad idea^^

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: Holod2 on 20 08 2015, 19:26:06

Quote from: White-Tiger on 08 01 2015, 15:43:39

well... if he installs the HTTPServer or FTPFile addon, he might have a port "something" listens on^^
Still agree that using a port for this kind of thing is a really bad idea^^

What is the HTTPServer port? May be need to open in router or i dunno why httpserver doesn't work for me.

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: White-Tiger on 20 08 2015, 20:16:47

Default port should be 80... (TCP)
You can change that however, in Options->Network, select "HTTP Server" from drop down and set your "Incoming" port. Then either restart Miranda or Menu->Disable HTTP Server (x2)

Title: Re: Force MirandaNG cliente to listen on a specific port
Post by: AnrDaemon on 20 08 2015, 23:00:28

Quote from: carlos on 07 01 2015, 15:09:59

I'm trying to monitor MirandaNG running as a service by monitoring the service. The problem is that if MirandaNG is running as a service, no message can be sent.

Forgive my ignorance, but WHY you are running Miranda as SERVICE?