bb-win & client-local.cfg

     Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the BBWin Project...What's,uh...What's wrong
with it?

     Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead,
that's what's wrong with it!

     Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

     Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead project when I see one, and I'm
looking at one right now.

     Owner: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable project, the
BBWin, idn'it, ay? Beautiful coding!

     Mr. Praline: The coding don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

     Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
With apologies to Monty Python
:-)

I have no idea how things hang together in Wintendo-land, nor am I able to
code in anything that could be useful, so I am going to have to sit on the
sidelines and cheer for those who do attempt to revive this one.

Cheers
     Vernon


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Josh Luthman
<user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Maybe a bit?

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=136450&ugn=bbwin&type=svn&mode=12months

There is someone doing a Windows client (XymonWin?) that just started a
short while back, I can't recall the details.

As you can tell I'm not too much into Windows servers so I am sorry I can't
give you many more details.


Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Vernon Everett <user-b3f8dacb72c8@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Beginning to sound like BBWin might be in need of an upgrade or refit.
Is the project still active?
If so, who is the maintainer?
If not, where do we go from here?

Cheers
     Vernon


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Baldwin <
user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Vernon,

Hi all

Hoping for a little help on this one.
Got a stream of errors coming through from some wintendo clients
running bb-win.
See example below.
We would like to ignore some errors related to certain messages.
I was under the impression that the following in client-local.cfg
would do it.

[win32]
eventlog:Security
ignore Success
eventlog:System
ignore Information
*eventlog:Application
ignore Citrix System Monitoring
ignore MetaFrameEvents*

Appears to not be the case.
How do we configure the client-local.cfg to ignore instances of the
first and last error, but not instances like the middle one below?
(The messages are for illustrative purposes only - their relative
importance and why I should or shouldn't ignore them is not under
discussion)

Regards
     Vernon

I grappled with the same problem for ages. My situation was complicated
by the fact I have success and failure auditing also enabled, which
means the client messages could be huge, and even bumping up
MAXMSG_CLIENT to around 15MB was still not enough. I never worked out
how to filter a single message out.

My eventual solution was to disable msgs reporting entirely in BBWIN
(comment out the BBWIN.CFG line loading the msgs DLL), and set up event
log forwarding using SNARE (
http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/SnareWindows/index.html ) to
rsyslog on the logging/monitoring server (running xymon/hobbit) and then
write a test to filter the forwarded logs. This also allowed me to
filter on severity, error code, etc. so was a better solution due to
some of the bizarre errors Windows generates which can be safely ignored
(browser service, etc). Been meaning to contribute it and write it up
but haven't had time yet.

Note also that the event log reporting in BBWIN doesn't work at all well
for Windows 2008/Vista/7 due to the new event log system. The old BBNT
client doesn't cut it either.

David.

red application: error - 2010/07/26 11:41:53 - Citrix System Monitoring

Agent (37) - NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

 "The Queue thread stopped responding. The Citrix System Monitoring

Agent will shutdown

 and restart."

yellow application: warning - 2010/07/26 11:40:52 -

Citrix-Multimedia-Flash (50) - stuff/deleted

 "The client does not support HDX MediaStream for Flash. Server-side

Flash rendering

 will be used if available."

yellow application: warning - 2010/07/26 11:33:59 - MetaFrameEvents

(1103) - n/a

 "An error occurred while retrieving client printer properties. Default
printer properties
 will be used instead. Client name: (WI_-fCiFejFrIHBbXrfM) Printer:

(CompanyName

 Pull Print PS [UPD:PS] (from WI_-fCiFejFrIHBbXrfM) in session 6)

Printer driver:

 ()"

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