Zabbix monitoring of Samba mounts defined in /etc/fstab

This project is composed by two shell scripts, a Zabbix template and a zabbix-agent configuration file:

• The script discover_smb.sh checks for mount points defined in /etc/fstab with cifs type
• The script smb_check.sh reads the exit of mount command, and checks if every mount point in fstab is mounted
• The template has discovery items that read those values and activates triggers.
  This repository was created using Zabbix 4.4.5 and several GNU/Linux CentOS 7 OS servers. It may work on previous zabbix versions, but I couldn’t test it.

Features

• Discover shared samba resources, mounted in the file system
• Receive an alert if any resource is not listed as mounted

Features planned

• Define mount types other than cifs

Installation

1. Download the necessary files or clone this project anywhere zabbix user can access.

2. Put zabbix-agentd.d/sambaMounts.conf in zabbix agent directory, normally /etc/zabbix/zabbix-agentd.d/. Edit this file if you don’t use the default /var/lib/zabbix folder for shell scripts.

3. Put smb_check.sh and discover_smb.sh in /var/lib/zabbix folder (or the one you defined in the previous file).

4. Now restart the Zabbix agent service.

5. Import template/samba_mount_template.xml in Zabbix and assign it to your desired hosts.

Feedback

Feel free to send bug reports and feature requests. If you are using this solution in production, please tell me to know it’s being useful.