Testing for 2k boxes joining the domain

[Marcus Nilsson]

In windows environment You have the command 'net view' that lists all hosts
in the current domain. Maybe you can make a .bat script that gets all the
hostnames and writes them to a file. Then you can get that file with
smbclient and process it on the Nagios machine.

Just a thought

/ Marcus

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Vickers [mailto:g.vickers at qut.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:16 AM
To: Tom DE BLENDE
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Testing for 2k boxes joining the domain


That's the rub, Tom - they have static IPs assigned to them so from an IP 
level, to Nagios they appear to be up, the same goes for using smbclient to 
attach to the shares as I can't test with smbclient that a machine that is 
sharing a directory has joined the domain or not :)

And yes, we had touched on checking a service that depends on joining the 
domain successfully, I guess we'll have to do that. Thanks for the 
suggestion, we'll give it a shot.

Thanks,
Greg

At 17:26 24/10/2002, Tom DE BLENDE wrote:
>I'm not sure if it can be checked on service level.
>
>However, if there are network problems, then those desktops can't get
>an IP through DHCP. If you are using DHCP, then you can simply try to
>ping those servers, as they will have an IP in the lame
>Microsoft-I-Cannot-Reach-My-DHCP-Server-IP-Range: 169.254.x.x. So
>pinging them on their normal IP won't work.
>
>I don't know if this works for you. If those servers are not using
>DHCP, then ignore what I said and tell me. I find this an interesting
>one to have a look at when I have got the time.
>
>One workaround would be installing a dummy service that you run with a
>domain user account. If the domain is unavaiable at boot time, then
>that service will fail to start as the account is unavailable. And if
>that service didn't start, then you can check that with NSClient.
>
>Greg Vickers wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > Just a question: how could you use Nagios to test wether a 2k computer
has
> > successfully joined the domain? We have lecture theatre computers that
> > automagically log on when they start up. If there is (god forbid) and
> > network problem or something else that stops them joining the domain,
they
> > will do a local login.
> > Is there a service that runs after they successfully join the domain?
i.e.
> > so that we can actively check that they have joined the domain.
> >
> > Thanks,
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