I use kadm5_get_privs as a ping for an admin perl script, see this thread:
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2012-February/017811.html Chris On 2014-04-02 12:46, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Wang Shouhua wrote: > >> Is there such an utility which can issue a "ping" (null command) to >> the kdc to see if it is still responding? > > I'm not aware of a dedicated utility. However, the KDC is basically a > stateless UDP service, so recording a live transaction and replaying an > input packet is expected to yield some sort of response packet. Doing > this periodically allows for a very primitive "liveness check" which can > be used in some monitoring setups. Of course, if one wants to monitor > that the KDC is actually functioning properly and not just spewing error > packets, more effort is required. > > -Ben Kaduk > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list [email protected] > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
