[Samba] samba performance metrics

[Scott Feldstein]

I have found this, which looks like it could be interesting ->
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html  
(search for perfmon in the page)

It seems like this dir should have perf counters, but I don't see  
them in my running instance.  Anyone know about this?

On my instance it is:

/var/cache/samba/perfmon/*.tbd

But I don't see anything.

Any idea?

On Aug 1, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Scott Feldstein wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to write a monitor to gather Samba Server  
>> performance metrics.
>> I would like to get raw metrics directly from the server itself  
>> rather than a
>> 3rd party tool.  Could anyone point me to docs or enlighten me on  
>> how to
>> accomplish this?
>>
>> I am looking to determine the availability of the server (up or  
>> down), the
>> number of files requested, any caching information available and  
>> anything else
>> which would be relevant to determining the overall health of the  
>> server.
>
> Only way I know of is smbstatus. If there was an interface to  
> smbstatus
> where one could pipe commands and you get the results I could use  
> that as
> a workable interface to connect "dstat" to a local samba server.
>
> See:
> 	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/
>
> Sadly, forking smbstatus and grepping output for a few counters is  
> more
> work than it should be.
>
> So I'm interested as well to learn how to get counters from samba,  
> other
> than smbstatus that is :)
>
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]