Re: [monit] SMB Mount monitoring

[Dave Keeton]

Thanks Martin. That what I ended up doing, but I wanted to see what my other options were.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

Dave
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From: Martin Pala <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [monit] SMB Mount monitoring
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:58:56 +0100

You can try to check the file which can be stored on he share - for 
example if the share is mounted on "/mnt/windows" then you can create 
hidden file "/mnt/windows/.monittest$" and use "check file ..." test. If 
the file won't exist, the share is not available.

Martin

Dave Keeton wrote:
> I'm trying to wrap my head around the best way to monitor a remote SMB 
> share that's mounted locally on a Linux box. Checking the directory 
> doesn't appear to work, since the mount point will always be there. Any 
> suggestions on how to verify that the mount is valid? I need to be able 
> to have monit re-mount the share if it disappears for some reason. The 
> SMB server is flaky, so it can be a hassle to get Linux to unmount the 
> share and remount it when the connection is broken.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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Dave Keeton
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Enterprise Systems
Oregon State Data Center
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