Re: Real Server Monitoring

[Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@xxxxxxxx>]

rpcping ?

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Horms wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:06:49AM -0000, Don Hinshaw wrote:
> > Would a simple TCP_CONNECT be the right way to test NFS?
>
> If you are running NFS over TCP/IP then perhaps, but in my experience NFS
> deployments typically use NFS over UDP/IP. I'm suspecting a better test
> would be to issue some rpc calls to the NFS server and look at the
> response, if any. Something equivalent to what showmount can do might not
> be a bad start.
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