Monitoring for SMB connections

rissy416

I have a need to monitor my file servers so that if I see a single client with more than X connections, I get an alert.

The use case is some issues we've seen, whereby a single client that exhibits the application error, open thousands of simultaneous SMB connections to the file sever. After a while, this will cause the file server to hang and all shares go offline.

Ideally I would like a monitor that would say:- 'If there are more than 50 SMB connections from a single client source IP, then trigger an email'

Any help great appreciated,

cfizz34

I too would love to have a SMB monitoring template to use with SAM.  We have a file server using StorSimple iSCSI attached LUNS and when I am doing a file copy it seems the file server or the SS cannot keep up with the SMB requests and the environment slowly starts to degrade and I am not sure of the true culprit.  Any know of the best counters to use and what value to watch out for?

Ref Articles:

SMB Tuning for XenApp and File Servers on Windows Server 2008 | Citrix Blogs

Performance Tuning for SMB File Servers | Microsoft Docs