Centralized bbwin hobbit-clients not working for proc and ports 🔗 link

I'm trying to configure monitoring for windows servers so that I get
alerts when ports such as 80 and 443 are not available. I understand
that I have to set the servers to central mode and have done so on 1
client server for a test as below.

 
<!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
<setting name="mode" value="central" />
<setting name="configclass" value="win32" />

 
My hobbit-client.cfg file has the following:

 
HOST=xxxxx.co.uk

            PROC BBWin.exe 1

            PORT "LOCAL=%(:80|:443)" state=LISTEN TEXT=http and https

 
Unfortunately this is not working! I get white entries on the main
status page with "No process to check" for proc and just a "-" for
ports. I am getting the "Client Data" available for proc with current
date and time, but the status of the actual page is reading as last
updated back in November when I first changed the bbwin mode.

 
Any ideas where I am going wrong? 

 
(We have a solaris server being monitored from the same box and using
the same config file and both proc and ports are working fine for this.)

 
Thanks,

 
John

John Hamblin wrote:

First problem - Windows reports status LISTENING not LISTEN - so it
won't match on exact match. I use %LISTEN (more correct would be
%^LISTEN) to cover all eventualities.

I have the following in my hobbit-clients.cfg

CLASS=win32
        LOAD 80 90 # Load threholds are in %
        PORT LOCAL=%(\*|::|0.0.0.0):135 STATE=%LISTEN "TEXT=epmap listener"
        PORT LOCAL=%(\*|::|0.0.0.0):3389 STATE=%LISTEN "TEXT=RDP listener"
        PORT LOCAL=%[.:]3389 STATE=%ESTABLISHED MIN=0 TRACK=RDP
"TEXT=RDP connection"

Sounds like the client report isn't making it to the correct client
entry, or maybe not getting delivered at all. Check that it is not
reporting using a different hostname. Use the Reports->Ghost Clients.
Client names are case sensitive, so if the case doesn't match it won't
report under that machine.

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