Testing for 2k boxes joining the domain

[Greg Vickers]

Yes, unfortunately this will give a result even if the remote PC does not 
join the domain. smbclient cares not that the remote PC did not join the 
domain :)

At 19:14 24/10/2002, Tom DE BLENDE wrote:
>Well, if we put our brains together! Just use:
>
>smblient -L anyservername -U username%password
>
>This gives you the list on a Linux/Unix system. Then it's just a
>matter of parsing the output!
>
>Marcus Nilsson wrote:
> >
> > 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,
> > > >
> > > > =================================
> > > > Greg Vickers
> > > > Computer Systems Officer
> > > > Student Support and Systems,
> > > > Teaching and Learning Support Systems,
> > > > Queensland University of Technology,
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> > > > Brisbane,
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> > Greg Vickers
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> > Student Support and Systems,
> > Teaching and Learning Support Systems,
> > Queensland University of Technology,
> > Kelvin Grove Campus,
> > Brisbane,
> > Australia
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Greg Vickers
Computer Systems Officer
Student Support and Systems,
Teaching and Learning Support Systems,
Queensland University of Technology,
Kelvin Grove Campus,
Brisbane,
Australia

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