Monitoring SMB shares?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:46:05PM -0700, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:57:52 +0800
> From: nagios at mm.quex.org
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring SMB shares?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:24:45AM +0200, Xavier wrote:
> 
> > After a undetected incident this weekend, our management asked to
> > monitor something special:
> > 
> > A windows client copies files to a SMB share (W2K server).
> > Once processed by another application, files are removed.
> > The client is a "blackbox" for us, so we would like to be notified
> > when no new files are stored on the share.
> > 
> > Question: how? Possible?
> 

 .. snip ...

 Yes this is possible and even easy with the caveats noted below.

Prob the way to go is via a language that supports access to 
libsmbclient (such as Perl via a CPAN module whose name escapes me; 
other languages such as Python prob have bindings too). This lets you 
perform the SMB equivalent of a stat() (it may even be called that in 
the Perl module) on an exported  file or directory.

That said, I am not sure if there is a libsmbclient shared object that 
handles the extra requirements of 2kn or XP.

> bit of scripting.  The only issue I think you're likely to run
> into is if the server requires encrypted connections.  Our 2k3
> domain controllers require this so I can't connect to them from
> the Linux machines, but the 2k3 workstations are fine.  I did
> read somewhere about the CIFS driver supporting this stuff.
> 

You need support for kerberos authentication in your client for this to 
work (plus you need all the parephenalia [machine accounts] set up).

smbclient from Samba 3.0 has this, but I haven't got it going. There is 
quite a bit of Kerb stuff to get ones head around.

> You could also mount the share using smbfs or cifs, and then
> just check the files with ls or expand a shell glob.
> 
> 

Provided these file systems support 2k3 etc.

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Yours sincerely.

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Stanley Hopcroft



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