The New Relic Samba Plugin enables monitoring Samba, and it reports the following data:

• Amount of active Users
• Amount of active Machines
• Amount of open Files
• Amount of open Files per User (Average)

The Samba monitoring Plugin for New Relic requires the following:

• A New Relic account. Signup for a free account at http://newrelic.com
• You need to install this plugin on a Samba server. That host also needs Ruby (tested with 1.8.7, 1.9.3), and support for rubygems.

1. Install this gem from RubyGems:

   sudo gem install newrelic_samba_agent

2. Install config, execute

   sudo newrelic_samba_agent install - it will create /etc/newrelic/newrelic_samba_agent.yml file for you.

3. Edit the /etc/newrelic/newrelic_samba_agent.yml file generated in step 2.

   3.1. replace YOUR_LICENSE_KEY_HERE with your New Relic license key. Your license key can be found under Account Settings at https://rpm.newrelic.com, see https://newrelic.com/docs/subscriptions/license-key for more help.

   3.2. replace the agent name 'samba' to any unique instance name of choice

   3.3. replace the path of smbstatus if needed

4. Execute

   newrelic_samba_agent run

5. Go back to the Plugins list and after a brief period you will see the Samba Plugin listed in your New Relic account

You can use services like these to manage this process and run it as a daemon.

• Upstart
• Systemd
• Runit
• Monit

Please use Github issues for support.