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Hello Nagios support

We are trying to monitor filesize for the file, located on the CIFS volume

- with this kind of path:
\\XYZ-cifs01-biz\XYZ-FS-PROD\XYZ\In Production\Apps\Service Management Reporting\Asset Analytics\

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CIFS Wizard does not work:

check_mountpoint!\XYZ-FS-PROD\XYZ\In Production\Apps\Service Management Reporting\Asset Analytics -i

Usage: check_mountpoints.sh [-m FILE] $mountpoint [$mountpoint2 ...]
Usage: check_mountpoints.sh -h,--help
Options:
-m FILE Use this mtab instead (default: /proc/mounts)
-f FILE Use this fstab instead (default: /etc/fstab)
-N NUMBER FS Field number in fstab (default: 3)
-M NUMBER Mount Field number in fstab (default: 2)
-T SECONDS Responsetime at which an NFS is declared as staled (default: 3)
-L Allow softlinks to be accepted instead of mount points
-i Ignore fstab. Do not fail just because mount is not in fstab. (default: unset)
-a Autoselect mounts from fstab (default: unset)
-A Autoselect from fstab. Return OK if no mounts found. (default: unset)
-w Writetest. Touch file $mountpoint/.mount_test_from_$(hostname) (default: unset)
MOUNTPOINTS list of mountpoints to check. Ignored when -a is given

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What is best way to make this happen?

Thanks,
Dimitri

Try changing the path from backslashes to forward slashes like this for the check and add single quotes because of the space in the name. Also, is the CIF mounted on the nagios system?
The plugin checks to see if the CIF is mounted in the local system.

If it is a remote server, you may have to find another plugin.

tgriep wrote:Try changing the path from backslashes to forward slashes like this for the check and add single quotes because of the space in the name.

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'/XYZ-FS-PROD/XYZ/In Production/Apps/Service Management Reporting/Asset Analytics/'

Also, is the CIF mounted on the nagios system?
The plugin checks to see if the CIF is mounted in the local system.

If it is a remote server, you may have to find another plugin.

So if we want to monitor CIFS/NFS content, it should always be mounted to Nagios locally?

To use that plugin, yes it will have to be mounted on the Nagios server.
Also, that plugin does not look for a size of a file either so that plugin will not works for that either.

tgriep wrote:To use that plugin, yes it will have to be mounted on the Nagios server.
Also, that plugin does not look for a size of a file either so that plugin will not works for that either.

If it does not, how could I check for File sizes and counts on CIFS / NFS shares with Nagios?

I found some plugins on the Exchange site that may work for you. Take a look at them to see if they will.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... es/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... le/details

There might be others but those 2 look closest to what you are looking for.

tgriep wrote:I found some plugins on the Exchange site that may work for you. Take a look at them to see if they will.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... es/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... le/details

There might be others but those 2 look closest to what you are looking for.

Would this be a Nagios-side plugin?
- so that we still mount CIFS and use the plugin against the mounted volume?

I did a very quick look them and the Plugins run on the Nagios server but they do not have to be mounted on the Nagios server.