National TeleConsultants CIFS

With the NTC CIFS connector, you can monitor the state of the SMB/CIFS mounts.

About

The CIFS connector periodically polls one or more SMB/CIFS mounts to retrieve status information about the share. By default, this happens every 30 seconds.

Installation and configuration

Creation

This connector uses a virtual connection and does not need any user input.

Usage

CIFS Shares

On this page, you can configure and Add Filters on Drives that are to be polled. The Drive is selected using UNC-Paths, and in the other columns the Authentication can be filled in.

The page contains a page button called Export/Import. This leads to a page where the current configuration can be exported into a .csv file, and where configurations can be imported from .csv files. Please make sure that the Path is filled in with a valid folder path and that it ends with the name and extension of the file.

Disk Info

This page provides the result table of all correctly configured Filters. The Total Space, Free Space and Usage are displayed here, along with the Total Files, which shows the number of files that correspond with the selected filter, and the Total Directories, which corresponds to the number of directories under the chosen location (without taking the File Filter into account). The age of the oldest file is also displayed in the column Oldest File Age, indicated in minutes up till the present moment.

Notes

• The current maximum number of filters should not exceed 200. However, if this is insufficient, a connector modification can be done to increase this number.
• Be careful when determining the Filter and Path: make sure there are no symbolic links or mounted drives that link back to themselves to form an infinite loop. Every Filter has a time-out time of maximum 6 minutes before failing and logging an error.