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Looking for a way to detect, if anybody currently is downloading an image from your SLES based ZCM-Server?

If so, then try this:

Make an ssh connection to your image server

@ the console, type the following:

strace -fp $(pgrep novell-pbservd) 2>&1|grep send

Above will start a trace of everything, that the novell-pbservd sends out

So if there's no output, it means nobody is currently imaging, otherwise, it'll show an output like the following:

[pid 24278] sendto(1, "#r\343|\312\250\262\232\273\321|l\226\322d\301\0314~,\236,\6-W=\25\304\26\254\361\370"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\216\24\31\343\351'\347\337\352\1\246\343\341\311\370\352\344\315N\32yH\274d\5\3204\306\207\311\321&"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "k\310R\226\246E<\323\367'G-i\357\226\7\335/\254\343\334r\224\221\330/r\301\247\226\255\225"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\224F\340\341\261\231\277\204\314\373K\310\260\266\205\356p\31\241N\2104\271\"A#d\34\tg\374\33"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "l\22\233\300\256C[\321\304\324\245X\306\315\16\342!\252c\341\214_\375c:\32s\372\362O\252y"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "f\344o\32\365\207\4\303\210F\36.\235\331H\311\272 \24\324\315\254\237\1S\346\273\370\307\276\243\323"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\334p\3642\300\tbQ\2507\262Xp\243\256_\204\203\253\3537\201_\271\352\207?#+\6\17a"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "8\243\316\\V;\364\356\243\264~\244\251\200\236\271\352\377\240\215\252Ge\365\225\204\301\334\307nT\242"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\331!sGV\364\r\343W\320\336}\0F\341\321\252\33\36\312\356\234#0>\323=\252\271\361U\242"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\355\372\223P\244h\27\377\264\230\343F>0\260:4\226[\353!^!\216Y\243\307\352\fz\204\26"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\333z\235\24J\322\353\233\333?\320{\224\372\r4X\367\35j5y\207\265\323\2\2164\206\272\212\206"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 4440
[pid 24278] sendto(1, "\357\334\313l<q\256yh\336J\350\3715\347\ns\222\322\316\337V\323E\327\334\276B\320\337\233\356"..., 4440, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0 <unfinished ...>

To stop the trace again, hit Ctrl C

Best Regards

Tommy

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.