Hello folks! I'm monitoring several Samba servers (SuSE OES) that suffer from a debilitating problem: periodically their authentication cache stops working, and as a result none of the services that depend on that authentication cache, including Samba, respond to requests.
I'm currently using the check_disk_smb plugin to verify that a test user can establish a CIFS connection (and also to monitor disk usage, but that's secondary). Unfortunately, when the abovementioned problem occurs, check_disk_smb fails not CRITICAL, but UNKNOWN; this is because the request times out instead of being rejected, since the server is still listening on the port, but the SMB negotiation never completes. I thought I would try to add an additional layer of testing by using check_tcp's ability to send a string and expect a string in return; unfortunately, it looks like SMB doesn't talk using human-readable strings (or at least it looked that way to me). check_tcp always succeeds, even when check_disk_smb will time out and fail. Anybody else run into a similar problem? Any suggestions for another way to implement the extra later of testing, or any other ideas? thanks, -Steve -- Steve Huff - Systems Administrator, Harvard-MIT Data Center - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
