samba - Jul 2007 - samba performance metrics

Hi,
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.

thanks.

Scott

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,
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