6.3 Monitoring Connections

Table 6-1 Connection Monitoring command options

Option

Description

-C, --Conn

Displays the count of active connections.

-Cl, --Conn --list

Lists all CIFS connections.

-ClA, --Conn --list --ad

Lists all Active Directory connections.

-ClE, --Conn --list --eDir

Lists all eDirectory connections.

-Cn CONNECTION_ID, --Conn --connection= CONNECTION_ID

Displays details of the specified connection ID.

By querying or listing all open connections, you can find how many sessions are open at any given time. The details include session ID, client IP address, user name, user login time, consolidated list of read/write requests, access mode, and total number of other requests received.

You can also drill down to extract per-connection details such as the group that the user is a member of.

The Privileges field displaying Supervisor for the logged in user implies that the user has Supervisor privileges for Entry Rights over NCP Server object. The user with such privileges gets full access to all the mounted volumes irrespective of user rights at file system level.

6.3.1 Access Modes

Connection details include access modes in which the CIFS server opened the file on behalf of the user.

This field displays information that the CIFS server has interpreted from the data received as part of both the Access Mask and Share Access fields in the request.

Desired Access: Specifies the access modes that the client has requested.

RD: Indicates the right to read data from the file.

WR: Indicates the right to write data into the file.

DA: Indicates the right to delete the file.

Share Access: Specifies the sharing modes that the client has requested; that is, how the file should be shared with other users.

DR: Indicates that the right to read data from the file is denied.

DW: Indicates that the right to write data into the file is denied.

DD: Indicates that the right to delete or rename the file is denied.