RE: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares

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

Looking at the code in shares.sh:
----------------------------
if test ! "$BBHOME"
then
	echo "Error BBHOME is not set"
	exit
else
	if test ! "$BBTMP"
	then
		. $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh
	fi
fi
-----------------------------

I do not have a file $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh

It also mentions editing this file in the directions.

Is this something that needs to be edited/modified for use with Hobbit?

-
 
Harold Ballinger
IT Coordinator
Heritage Healthcare, Inc. 
 (888) 335-2620  | helpdesk
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-----Original Message-----
From: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor (at) makelofine.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:27 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares

Harold J. Ballinger a écrit :
> I tried this. Initially, I was getting an error in /var/log/hobbit/shares.log:
> 
> Could not start task shares using command '/usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/shares.sh': Permission denied
> 
> I realized that the shares.sh execute permissions were not correct, so I used  CHMOD to change them.
> 
> I no longer get the errors in the shares.log, but I still have no shares column showing up for the hosts that have it listed in the bb-hosts file as shown below:
> 
>> 10.1.1.1	MYSERVER	# shares:USERS shares:PUBLIC ftp smtp
> 
> I guess my next step would be to try and run the shares.sh manually and see what kind of output or errors come up? Do I just need to su as the bb/hobbit user so that I'm running it as the bb user?
> 
> 
>  
> Harold Ballinger
> IT Coordinator
> Heritage Healthcare, Inc. 
>  (888) 335-2620  | helpdesk
>  (864) 224-3626  | office
>  (864) 224-3093  | fax
> 
> Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor (at) makelofine.org] 
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:09 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
> 
> Harold J. Ballinger a écrit :
>> The original test that worked for BB can be found at http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=211 
>>
>> It is "server side" and tests any hosts that are in your bbhosts file on your server. For example:
>>
>> 10.1.1.1	MYSERVER	# shares:USERS shares:PUBLIC ftp smtp
>>
>> This would report in the "shares" column for the MYSERVER host and would contain info about the "USERS" and "PUBLIC" shares.
>>
>> -
>>  
>> Harold Ballinger
>> IT Coordinator
>> Heritage Healthcare, Inc. 
>>  (888) 335-2620  | helpdesk
>>  (864) 224-3626  | office
>>  (864) 224-3093  | fax
>>
>> Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor (at) makelofine.org] 
>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:32 PM
>> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
>>
>> Harold J. Ballinger a écrit :
>>> I'm interested in testing from a location other than the client hosting the smb share since I want to be sure that the share is accessible as it would need to be in the real world (whether that be authentication, permissions, name resolution, connectivity, firewall/routing permissions, or back end services that host the service). Especially when dealing with DFS and clustering, I want to know that the user experience (10,000 foot view) is working vs a particular host's own checks against 127.0.0.1.
>>>
>>> Your solution makes sense and it is a valid and well thought out test, but in my case, it only accounts for 70% of the possible failure points. (It would be like having the client ping 127.0.0.1 for the conn test in a routed environment - I know that the client is up and the ping service is responding, but I am missing a large piece of the puzzle.)
>>>
>>> I'm looking for the solution because we had such a test when we were using Big Brother, but it no longer works since we migrated to hobbit/xymon. We have been able to migrate most other tests/capabilities directly from BB easily and I was hoping that it was just something simple that I had overlooked.
>>>
>>> It has to be said that we have been much happier with Hobbit/Xymon than BB in all areas. I just don't like to let something "beat me" when it comes to technology. :-)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor (at) makelofine.org] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:56 PM
>>> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
>>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
>>>
>>> Harold J. Ballinger a écrit :
>>>> The description made it sound like the column would be listed on the server that is doing the testing and not on the servers that are actually hosting the smb shares. If a share is down, I want the "red" to show up on the specific server that is hosting that service.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming (at) desy.de] 
>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:09 PM
>>>> To: 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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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm the modest maker of the samba servers monitoring hosted on 
>>> xymonton.trantor.org.
>>> When I wrote this script, I tought it was a better to monitor samba 
>>> shares with samba clients than monitoring from the server himself. Hence 
>>>   it tests all the components needed to access the share : network, port 
>>> accessibility (including firewall), and user authentication.
>>> You can also run the script from your xymon server, because it include a 
>>> client too.
>>> So, the server can test itselfs without any problem. I'm open to any 
>>> suggestion to add any feature, it should be very interesting. But i'm 
>>> afraid i couldn't do anything in including it in xymon code. I don't 
>>> know C or any low level langage.
>>> I hope my little contribution could help you. If so, please give me 
>>> informations about your software versions to add them in the know 
>>> working section.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Damien
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>> PS : What BB test did you use to have this feature ? Many of the old BB 
>> tests just need a very few rewrite to work with hobbit/xymon. I can try 
>> to do it.
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> Hi,
> 
> I successfully used shares.sh script with xymon server 4.2.3. I didn't 
> have to change anything in the code. The only things to do are :
> -define SMBCLIENT, ACCOUNT, PASSWORD in shares.sh
> -add shares section in bb-hosts, according to "Inscrutions" section
> -add :
> [shares]
>          ENVFILE /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>          NEEDS hobbitd
>          CMD /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/shares.sh
>          LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/shares.log
>          INTERVAL 5m
> to xymon/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
> 
> Then reload server, and all is working !
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I didn't manage to test very deeply this plugin, but my short tests 
allowed me to get column and test results.
In order to have better informations, you  could add this line to the 
end of th e script :
echo "$BB $BBDISP "status ${FULLNAME}.shares $BGCOLOR  `date` $LINE""
You will have informations in shares.log file and maybe you'll find the 
root cause

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