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Monitor CIFS mount on Linux client?

list Xymon User in Richmond
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:54:23 -0500
Message-Id: <user-bdb4b2e20aa5@xymon.invalid>

On Wed, November 18, 2009 06:36, user-9219fb9415b1@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hi
I can exclude CIFS using df options to avoid the hang, but then I won't
 get any warning at all unless I find a better way to check the mounts.
 Suggestions?
I have written an SMB test for Hobbit a few years ago, maybe this is what
 you are looking for. It writes a small file to a CIFS share, reads it
and then deletes it using the smbclient program.
Thanks!  Although this script won't work for testing the already-mounted
CIFS filesystem, I can perhaps use it as an architectural model for such a
test on the CIFS FS mount.  But I'm now thinking that anything I do to
check the status will hang, blocked on IO, unkillable, just like the df
does, so the effort may be pointless.  Purple may be the best I can do.