RE: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares

["Harold J. Ballinger" <hballinger (at) heritage-healthcare.com>]

The problem is that I then have to manage my tests in two locations - once in the bb-hosts and then I have to write them all out again inside the script that is run by cron. This would be very inefficient and isn't a very pretty solution.

I wanted a way of defining an indicator/testname that could be inserted into each host entry in bb-hosts (just like all the other network tests are done) and have the system recognize that it should run the test against that host. For example, if I add "ftp" in my bb-hosts file, the system is smart enough to call the ftp test and run it against that specific host automatically. I want to have a way of defining a new "smb" test that can be indicated in the bb-hosts just like any other network test and that would automatically be run against those hosts in the same way that other network tests are run.

I just don't know:

1)      where these network tests are defined

2)      how to define a new network test "smb" to use a specific script

3)      how to pass the results from this script to Xymon so that it will display separate results for each host in their own "smb" column

Thanks!

From: shea_greg (at) emc.com [mailto:shea_greg (at) emc.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:35 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Cc: shea_greg (at) emc.com
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares

What I've found is that the BBEXT variable in bbdef.sh was not the preferred way to run external scripts,
but to use bb-bbexttab instead.  The format of the bb-bbexttab "localhost : : bb-wcheck.pl;900" meant
upon startup run this extension script every 900 seconds.

So Ralph is right on with the hobbitlaunch.cfg or cron suggestions

Hope this helps
Greg Shea
EMC Corporation

From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:15 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares

I *think* that the BBEXT variable in BB is for a list of the external test scripts to be executed.  Those would be migrated to the hobbitlaunch.cfg file.

You can also use cron to execute the external script - I've done that successfully for years.  You'll need to make sure your script executes with the hobbit/xymon environment.  You can do that using bbcmd.

Ralph Mitchell

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Harold J. Ballinger <hballinger (at) heritage-healthcare.com<mailto:hballinger (at) heritage-healthcare.com>> wrote:
Essentially, I just need to be able to define a different type of network test / external test to be performed by the Xymon server itself. I can't figure out where the bbdef.sh logic went in the switch over to Hobbit/Xymon. Or maybe that type of testing isn't supported anymore with Hobbit/Xymon?

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming (at) desy.de<mailto:martin.flemming (at) desy.de>]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:37 PM
To: 'hobbit (at) hswn.dk<mailto:hobbit (at) hswn.dk>'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares



Grrmph, you're right :-(


On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Harold J. Ballinger wrote:

> I looked at that too, but it looks like that is a client side test because it has a portion that you load on the client and a portion that you load on the server.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming (at) desy.de<mailto:martin.flemming (at) desy.de>]
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:09 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk<mailto:hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
>
>
> maybe this
>
> http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:samba_servers
>
> cheers,
>       martin
>
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
>
>> I want a "shares" column to show up for each file server that has smb shares indicating whether or not the shares are accessible.
>>
>> In a perfect world, I would like to monitor these SMB shares from the xymon server itself vs from a client. In my mind, the xymon server would have a server side script that would allow me to add "shares:Public", "shares:Users", etc. to the listings in BB-HOSTS. In fact, I had found this solution on DeadCat called "shares" that is meant to be setup on a BB server. However, it mentioned editing bbdef.sh to include shares.sh in the BBEXT variable and I just didn't know where to do this in Xymon
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
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Gruss

       Martin Flemming


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