# Samba monitoring with Netdata Monitors the performance metrics of Samba file sharing. ## Requirements - `smbstatus` program - `sudo` program - `smbd` must be compiled with profiling enabled - `smbd` must be started either with the `-P 1` option or inside `smb.conf` using `smbd profiling level` - `netdata` user needs to be able to sudo the `smbstatus` program without password It produces the following charts: 1. **Syscall R/Ws** in kilobytes/s - sendfile - recvfile 2. **Smb2 R/Ws** in kilobytes/s - readout - writein - readin - writeout 3. **Smb2 Create/Close** in operations/s - create - close 4. **Smb2 Info** in operations/s - getinfo - setinfo 5. **Smb2 Find** in operations/s - find 6. **Smb2 Notify** in operations/s - notify 7. **Smb2 Lesser Ops** as counters - tcon - negprot - tdis - cancel - logoff - flush - lock - keepalive - break - sessetup ## prerequisite This module uses `smbstatus` which can only be executed by root. It uses `sudo` and assumes that it is configured such that the `netdata` user can execute `smbstatus` as root without password. Add to `sudoers`: ``` netdata ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /path/to/smbstatus ``` ## Configuration **samba** is disabled by default. Should be explicitly enabled in `python.d.conf`. ```yaml samba: yes ``` Edit the `python.d/samba.conf` configuration file using `edit-config` from the Netdata [config directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. ```bash cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different sudo ./edit-config python.d/samba.conf ``` --- [](<>)