ping for kdc utility?

[Chris Hecker]

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
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