Looking for advice for best practices on fetching status of the samba server and share information. One option is to parse the output of `smbstatus` into a machine-readable format. But I noticed there are some apis documented. We are using samba 4.11 which is supposed to have full python3 api support. So the question is, can the share and lock information displayed in the `smbstatus` command also be read from an API, such as the python3 samba package? Glancing through the API documentation I did not see anything obvious. Perhaps better to use the tdb package and read from the databases directly. The purpose is to collect metrics and create a dashboard so we can track mounts, locks, etc across all servers and shares. Any advice is welcome thanks - isaac
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:23:49PM -0700, Isaac Stone via samba wrote:> Looking for advice for best practices on fetching status of the samba > server and share information. > > One option is to parse the output of `smbstatus` into a machine-readable > format. But I noticed there are some apis documented. We are using samba > 4.11 which is supposed to have full python3 api support. > > So the question is, can the share and lock information displayed in the > `smbstatus` command also be read from an API, such as the python3 samba > package? Glancing through the API documentation I did not see anything > obvious. Perhaps better to use the tdb package and read from the databases > directly. > > The purpose is to collect metrics and create a dashboard so we can track > mounts, locks, etc across all servers and shares. Any advice is welcomeThis would be a useful addition to the python Samba APIs. Can you define what you'd like such Python API calls to look like ?
Hmmm, I am looking right now for access to the same information in
`smbstatus`, only in a more scriptable way.
for example, I could get info on who all has write locked files:
```
processes = samba.get_processes()
data = {}
for process in processes;
if process.service == 'IPC$':
continue
data[process.username] = [(l.share_path, l.name) for l in
process.get_locks() if l.deny_mode == 'DENY_WRITE']
```
Another thing I see in the docs we have `samba.join`, might be nice to have
something in there to get current join status, and fail early if the box
hasn't joined the domain properly. Something like `net ads testjoin` or
`wbinfo
-P`
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:25 PM Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:23:49PM -0700, Isaac Stone via samba wrote:
> > Looking for advice for best practices on fetching status of the samba
> > server and share information.
> >
> > One option is to parse the output of `smbstatus` into a
machine-readable
> > format. But I noticed there are some apis documented. We are using
samba
> > 4.11 which is supposed to have full python3 api support.
> >
> > So the question is, can the share and lock information displayed in
the
> > `smbstatus` command also be read from an API, such as the python3
samba
> > package? Glancing through the API documentation I did not see anything
> > obvious. Perhaps better to use the tdb package and read from the
> databases
> > directly.
> >
> > The purpose is to collect metrics and create a dashboard so we can
track
> > mounts, locks, etc across all servers and shares. Any advice is
welcome
>
> This would be a useful addition to the python Samba APIs.
>
> Can you define what you'd like such Python API calls
> to look like ?
>
>