It was recently asked to come up with a method to alert on the availability of specific CIFS file shares in our environment. This was due to a recent issue we had on our VNX with our data mover crashing and causing the corruption of a single file system when it came back up. We were unaware for several hours of the one file system being unavailable on our CIFS server.
This particular script would require maintenance whenever a new file system share is added to a CIFS server. A unique line must to be added for every file system share that you have configured. If a file system is not mounted and the share is inaccessible, an email alert will be sent. If the share is accessible the script does nothing when run from the scheduler. If it’s run manually from the CLI, it will echo back to the screen that the path is active.
This is a bash shell script, I run it on a windows server with Cygwin installed using the ‘email’ package for SMTP. It should also run fine from a linux server, and you could substitute the ‘email’ syntax for sendmail or whatever other mail application you use. I have it scheduled to check the availability of CIFS shares every one hour.
DIR1=file_system_1; SRV1=cifs_servername; echo -ne $DIR1 && echo -ne “: ” && [ -d //$SRV1/$DIR1 ] && echo “Network Path is Active” || email -b -s “Network Path \\\\$SRV1\\$DIR1 is offline” emailaddress@email.com
DIR2=file_system_2; SRV1=cifs_servername; echo -ne $DIR1 && echo -ne “: ” && [ -d //$SRV1/$DIR2 ] && echo “Network Path is Active” || email -b -s “Network Path \\\\$SRV1\\$DIR2 is offline” emailaddress@email.com
DIR3=file_system_3; SRV1=cifs_servername; echo -ne $DIR1 && echo -ne “: ” && [ -d //$SRV1/$DIR3 ] && echo “Network Path is Active” || email -b -s “Network Path \\\\$SRV1\\$DIR3 is offline” emailaddress@email.com
DIR4=file_system_4; SRV1=cifs_servername; echo -ne $DIR1 && echo -ne “: ” && [ -d //$SRV1/$DIR4 ] && echo “Network Path is Active” || email -b -s “Network Path \\\\$SRV1\\$DIR4 is offline” emailaddress@email.com
DIR5=file_system_5; SRV1=cifs_servername; echo -ne $DIR1 && echo -ne “: ” && [ -d //$SRV1/$DIR5 ] && echo “Network Path is Active” || email -b -s “Network Path \\\\$SRV1\\$DIR5 is offline” emailaddress@email.com
