monitoring freenas file systems using inotify

[Mahamady SANGLA]

hello ,
i am trying to monitor freenas file system specially the windows share that i create
first of all i am trying to install the inotify-tools package but i get this error
configure error : C compiler cannot creates executable
see attached file
can someome i am not quite familiar with linux
thanks

 

[Dusan]

You are using /data -- that's a 19MB partition with very little free space. I assume you also installed gcc there; no wonder it can't create executables, there's probably no space left on the partition.
Also, FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, not Linux. inotify-tools will never work even if you manage to compile it as inotify is a Linux kernel feature (i.e. there's no inotify in FreeBSD).

 

[Mahamady SANGLA]

ok . so what tools should i use if i wanna monitor the system ?
the purpose of this is to implement a cloud storage gateway ( user can either store on NAS or cloud ) http://www.gladinet.com/p/cloudgateway.html
can u help where to start ?
thanks ( this is related to my master thesis )

 

[Mahamady SANGLA]

sorry this link is giving more detail about what i want to implement http://www.snia.org/sites/default/f...Kulkarni_Cloud-File-Systems-using-CDMI-v5.pdf
sorry for disturbing
thanks

 

[Dusan]

I'm not sure that FreeNAS is the right platform for your project, but you may want to look into audit and auditpipe:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/audit.html
[PANEL] Event auditing allows the reliable, fine-grained, and configurable logging of a variety of security-relevant system events, including logins, configuration changes, and file and network access.[/PANEL]
This may be another option: http://www.freshports.org/devel/libinotify

 

[Mahamady SANGLA]

ok thanks u i will check them
we keep in touch

 

[jpaetzel]

The FreeBSD analog to inotify is called kqueue. It's in the kernel of FreeNAS, you just need something to hook to it.

 

[Mahamady SANGLA]

ok so how do i hook it or which tools i supposed to use ??
i not really familiar with it
thanks for help

 

[Yatti420]

I'm not really sure what you are attempting.. I'd look into BTsync since it will be available for freenas as a PBI as of 9.2.0 (not sure about 9.1.x)..

If you want your freenas box to act as a syslog server for a bunch of clients I used minirsyslogd in a jail.. Then you can check logs anytime for your various clients..