BBWin 0.5 available 🔗 link

Etienne Grignon a écrit :

[...]

The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17^th . It will contain :

* the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart features

* the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log

* Improvement of the cpu agent

* Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust)

* A better documentation

Hi Etienne

many thanks for your work, BBWin 0.5 works great (tested on Windows XP
Pro). Some settings in BBWin.cfg (like "report empty CD-ROM drives")are
very useful.

I have a few questions / remarks :
- do you plan to add a "time-of-day" setting in BBWin.cfg (it will be
supported by the Hobbit client 4.2) ?

- maybe BBWin.log should be moved from C:\ to C:\Program

Files\BBWin\logs, I don't like files in the root directory ;-)

user-b6ea1d850181@xymon.invalid>: 


Hi Etienne

many thanks for your work, BBWin 0.5 works great (tested on Windows XP
Pro). Some settings in BBWin.cfg (like "report empty CD-ROM drives")are 
very useful.

I have a few questions / remarks :
- do you plan to add a "time-of-day" setting in BBWin.cfg (it will be
supported by the Hobbit client 4.2) ?


Well, this setting doesn't seem to be for the client. I'm not familiar with
this setting but I think it is only useful on hobbit server side. Could you
give me an example of when you would need that setting from the client ? 
 

- maybe BBWin.log should be moved from C:\ to C:\Program 
Files\BBWin\logs, I don't like files in the root directory ;-)


You are right, I will create a logs directory and certainly create a
registry entry for this useful path.
 

- do you think a GUI (like the one from the BB client) will exist one day ?


For the moment, the most important is to get a full stable client even if we
have to edit the file by hand. However, I plan to try to develop a small mmc
or a small gui tool to configure the XML BBWin.cfg file easily
 

- do you plan to add dynamic settings in the next release ? 


Yes, may be not the future release, but I plan to be able to reload settings
from BBWin.cfg dynamically when BBWin.cfg time stamp has changed for example
without restarting the service.


Thanks for you answer ! 

--


I hope I answered all your questions.

-- 
Etienne

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


Hi Dave,


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>: 

Etienne,
 
Have you made this available for download?
 
Dave
 

Yes, it is available for download. You can download the Windows Installer
package from the url :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin 

If you meant the GUI tool, it is not available for the moment because I
didn't decide yet the tools I will use :)


-- 
Etienne GRIGNON

    - do you plan to add a "time-of-day" setting in BBWin.cfg (it will be
    supported by the Hobbit client 4.2) ?


Well, this setting doesn't seem to be for the client. I'm not familiar with this setting but I think it is only useful on hobbit server side. Could you give me an example of when you would need that setting from the client ?

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>: 

Just looking for the code.  Thank you.
 
Dave


Source code is available here :

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/bbwin/


-- 
Etienne GRIGNON

	-----Original Message-----
	From: mario andre [mailto:user-82c7780661a4@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 3:36 PM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available
	
	
	Etienne,
	 
	Excellent work.
	 
	The client is working good.
	 
	Regards,
	 
	Mario.

Did a quick read through the documentation, but did not see this
mentioned. Is there a configuration parameter to tell the client to page on
any report that had a yellow status ?

Steven

 -----Original Message-----
*From:* mario andre [mailto:user-82c7780661a4@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Monday, April 03, 2006 3:36 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available

Etienne,

Excellent work.

The client is working good.

Regards,

Mario.

--

Hobbit (at least the 4.1.2p1 server) supports this syntax :

HOST=%db.*.foo.com TIME=W:0800:1600
       LOAD 8.0 12.0
       DISK /db  98 100
       PROC mysqld 1


This is an example taken from ~server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg; I thought
it was supported by the 4.2-pre Hobbit client (which supports locally
configured clients), but I can't find it anymore...

 
Dave
 

From: hobbit-return-6219-david=user-9e293dd11111@xymon.invalid
[mailto:hobbit-return-6219-david=user-9e293dd11111@xymon.invalid] On Behalf
Of Etienne Grignon
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:07 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>: 

Just looking for the code.  Thank you.
 
Dave


Source code is available here :

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/bbwin/


-- 
Etienne GRIGNON

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:user-87c74c1037a4@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:26 PM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available
	
	
	Hi Steven,
	
	There is only notion of bbdisplay in BBWin. green, yellow and
red status are sent to the different bbdisplay specified in the
BBWin.cfg file.
	I never used the bbnt pager feature. That's why I didn't
implemented it but if you give me some details about how bbpage is
working, and if you really need it, I can implement a bbpage setting in
BBWin. 
	
	Could you give me some details ?
	
	Thanks in advance.
	
	
	2006/4/3, Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant)
<user-49fae449733a@xymon.invalid >: 

		Did a quick read through the documentation, but did not
see this mentioned. Is there a configuration parameter to tell the
client to page on any report that had a yellow status ?
		 
		Steven 

		
		-----Original Message-----
		From: mario andre [mailto:user-82c7780661a4@xymon.invalid] 
		Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 3:36 PM
		To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
		Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available
		
		
		Etienne,
		 
		Excellent work.
		 
		The client is working good.
		 
		Regards,
		 
		Mario.


	-- 
	Etienne GRIGNON

Hi Dave,


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>:

Etienne,

A problem has come up with the Externals.  I had been calling all of my
external scripts from one batch file when I was using BBNT, which worked
fine.  I ran the vbs script to convert my BBNT setting to BBWIN and checked
the XML file to see that it had imported c:\bblogs\bbexternals.cmd.
However, all my externals are reporting purple.

I did read through the docs and changed the scripts and registry to point
to the BBWin\tmp directory, but still no reports.  If I manually execute the
scripts, then they show up in the BBWin\tmp directory.  I even changed the
XML file to call the scripts directly.  But still no luck.  After a few
service restarts I got the following in my APP log

App: W 'Mon Apr 03 16:28:55 2006': BigBrotherHobbitClient - " The agent
externals generated this event
message : Failed to launch c:\bblogs\BBsav.vbs:   "
App: W 'Mon Apr 03 16:28:55 2006': BigBrotherHobbitClient - " The agent
externals generated this event
message : Failed to launch c:\bblogs\IIS-Check.vbs:   "
Any suggestions?

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


Hi Dave,


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>: 

Etienne,
 
A problem has come up with the Externals.  I had been calling all of my
external scripts from one batch file when I was using BBNT, which worked
fine.  I ran the vbs script to convert my BBNT setting to BBWIN and checked
the XML file to see that it had imported c:\bblogs\bbexternals.cmd.
However, all my externals are reporting purple.
 
I did read through the docs and changed the scripts and registry to point to
the BBWin\tmp directory, but still no reports.  If I manually execute the
scripts, then they show up in the BBWin\tmp directory.  I even changed the
XML file to call the scripts directly.  But still no luck.  After a few
service restarts I got the following in my APP log
 
App: W 'Mon Apr 03 16:28:55 2006': BigBrotherHobbitClient - " The agent
externals generated this event
message : Failed to launch c:\bblogs\BBsav.vbs:   "
App: W 'Mon Apr 03 16:28:55 2006': BigBrotherHobbitClient - " The agent
externals generated this event
message : Failed to launch c:\bblogs\IIS-Check.vbs:   "

Any suggestions?


For vbscript, you should write externals rules like this :

<load value="cscript.exe c:\bblogs\IIS-Check.vbs" />

You have to specify the executable used for the script. It should work well
after that.

Please let me know if it still doesn't work.


-- 
Etienne GRIGNON

Yep, that was the fix.  I should have realized that.

Any idea why my "catch all" external did not work?  With BBNT I called
bbexternals.cmd to run all of the external scripts.

bbexternals.cmd

cd c:\bblogs
cscript //b bbsav.vbs
cscript //b iis-check.vbs
cscript //b exchange.vbs

Thanks,

    Yep, that was the fix.  I should have realized that.
         Any idea why my "catch all" external did not work?  With BBNT I
    called bbexternals.cmd to run all of the external scripts.
         bbexternals.cmd

        cd c:\bblogs
        cscript //b bbsav.vbs
        cscript //b iis-check.vbs
        cscript //b exchange.vbs

    Thanks,
     

Well, I didn't implement the externals launch part as the original bbnt I think.
I will look at this to be able to launch cmd files. (Added to the bottom of the TODO list :) )
However, for the moment, I think you can try to fix it by doing this :

<load value="cmd.exe /C bbexternals.cmd " />

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON 

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:42:35PM -0400, Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote:

On the *NIX servers you had the 'pagelevels' setting in the
bb/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg file. I believe this setting configures the
client to send status reports as 'page' instead of 'status' when the
color matches... Thus if I want the client to page on yellow I just set
to  'pagelevels: red yellow'.

Hobbit (at least the 4.1.2p1 server) supports this syntax :

HOST=%db.*.foo.com TIME=W:0800:1600
       LOAD 8.0 12.0
       DISK /db  98 100
       PROC mysqld 1


This is an example taken from ~server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg; I thought
it was supported by the 4.2-pre Hobbit client (which supports locally
configured clients), but I can't find it anymore...

TIME=W:0800:16:00 means that from 16:00 to 8:00, every thing is understand
as green ? is that right ? and yellow or red colors appears only between
8:00 and 16:00 ? Or, doest it means that between 8:00 to 16:00, the default
rules are overridden by the special rules ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:20 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:42:35PM -0400, Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote:

On the *NIX servers you had the 'pagelevels' setting in the > bb/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg file. I believe this setting configures the > client to send status reports as 'page' instead of 'status' when the > color matches... Thus if I want the client to page on yellow I just > set to  'pagelevels: red yellow'.

You misunderstand how paging works in Hobbit.

The BBWin client should never care about paging. All of the paging is configured on the Hobbit server, in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file. The BBWin client just sends a status message to the Hobbit server; the Hobbit server then decides if an alert should be sent, based on the color of the status, the configuration in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, the time of day ... 
So, there is no reason to implement this unless you want to be compatible with an original Big Brother server.


Henrik

Henrik Stoerner a écrit :

My idea with the clients is that they should just collect data, not make
any decisions about whether a status should go yellow, red, blue or any
other color. That's for the Hobbit server to decide. So the clients just
gather whatever data is needed, sends it off to the Hobbit server, and
a back-end module there generates the actual status messages from the
raw data that the client reports.
  

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>: 

Yep, that was the fix.  I should have realized that.
 
Any idea why my "catch all" external did not work?  With BBNT I called
bbexternals.cmd to run all of the external scripts.
 
bbexternals.cmd

cd c:\bblogs
cscript //b bbsav.vbs
cscript //b iis-check.vbs
cscript //b exchange.vbs

Thanks,
 

Well, I didn't implement the externals launch part as the original bbnt I
think.
I will look at this to be able to launch cmd files. (Added to the bottom of
the TODO list :) )
However, for the moment, I think you can try to fix it by doing this :

<load value="cmd.exe /C bbexternals.cmd " />

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON

Hi Henrik

I have to say I like the choice offered by the 4.2-pre Hobbit client
("local" thresolds vs. centralized configuration).

Etienne, would it be difficult for BBWin to handle these 2 configurations
?

Thanks for your answer.

Etienne,

Thank you.  There are several useful NT Scripts on Deadcat that are .cmd
files.  It would certainly be useful to carry those over to BBWIN.  I'll
give your suggestion a shot and let you know how it works out.  Again, thank
you for your effort on putting this together, and putting up with "annoying"
questions.

Dave

 
Dave
 

From: hobbit-return-6232-david=user-9e293dd11111@xymon.invalid
[mailto:hobbit-return-6232-david=user-9e293dd11111@xymon.invalid] On Behalf
Of Etienne Grignon
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:17 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <user-70507ff7198d@xymon.invalid>: 

Yep, that was the fix.  I should have realized that.
 
Any idea why my "catch all" external did not work?  With BBNT I called
bbexternals.cmd to run all of the external scripts.
 
bbexternals.cmd

cd c:\bblogs
cscript //b bbsav.vbs
cscript //b iis-check.vbs
cscript //b exchange.vbs

Thanks,
 

Well, I didn't implement the externals launch part as the original bbnt I
think.
I will look at this to be able to launch cmd files. (Added to the bottom of
the TODO list :) )
However, for the moment, I think you can try to fix it by doing this :

<load value="cmd.exe /C bbexternals.cmd " />

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON

Hi Etienne,

bbwin 0.5 crashes on a german Win2000. Sorry for the german error message:

BBWin.exe - Fehler in Anwendung: Die Anweisung in "0x778cc024" verweist
auf Speicher in "0x00000000". Der Vorgang
"written" konnte nicht auf dem Speicher durchgeführt werden.

basically: Error in application. directive in "0x778cc024" points to
memory
in "0x00000000".

but in eventlog:

"The service BBWin has been successfully started. The hostname setting is
set to ps0114 "
"The agent disk.dll has been successfully loaded.
Agent name : disk
Agent version : 0.1
BBWin agent version : 1
Agent description : disk agent : report disk usage"
"The agent cpu.dll has been successfully loaded.
Agent name : cpu
Agent version : 0.1
BBWin agent version : 1
Agent description : cpu agent : report cpu usage"

My hobbit server receives no messages, everything goes purple.

Hello everyone,

I publish today the second preview of BBWin, a free Big Brother Hobbit Windows client.

This preview contains the new following stuffs:

* The Cpu agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a full ps report
sorted by cpu usage * The Disk agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage
* The Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory usage * The Stats agent dll : just to send statistics reports like netstat
for trends purpose * The external fsmon: a small script used to monitor folders (files counting for IIS smtp queue for example)
* The externals agent can now work with report file using lifetime 
feature
* The uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library
* The converting tools: migrate your current bbnt configuration to the BBWin configuration format instantaneously

Note : the cpu, disk, memory and stats agents are bbnt trends back compatible. So, you will be able to keep your trends history if you are moving from bbnt client.
Also, it contains the already existing stuffs with some bugs corrections. You may look at the change log file to get more details.
* The executable BBWin: it is the native service in charge of executing the agents
* The executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility to send messages to an hobbit server
* The Externals agent dll: it is an agent in charge of executing all
your existing BB scripts or executables
* The Procs agent dll : it is an agent in charge of checking 

* The Uptime agent dll: it will monitor uptime of the server including an alarm if reboot recently. It was interesting to separate this alarm from cpu column.
* The external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows clusters
* The external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows clusters
* The agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary headers to develop your own C++ BBWin agents
After installing the BBWin package, please read the Readme.txt file to understand its working. It is located in C:\Program Files\BBWin\doc if you installed it by default.
Note : If upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new version, it
will upgrade your BBWin agent without erasing your existing configuration files.
The centralized BBWin version is not ready (I have to provide some hobbit server side code to Henrik) so BBWin agents need local configuration for the moment.

The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17th. It will 
contain :
* the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart 
features
* the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log
* Improvement of the cpu agent
* Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust)
* A better documentation

Also, I created a newsletter that you can use for questions, requests or bug reports about BBWin.
You can subscribe to the list on : http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450

Etienne.

Hello Etienne,

i have some problems to get my external scripts running, using bbwin 0.5
The main problem is, that i cant troubleshoot in the right manner, because
the output of script execution does not appears in any kind of log, even
thought the logging level is set to debug. the only reporting i get is
those from CPU Test and some startup/shutdown messages.

Would you mind to redirect the output of external script launched in any
manner to dedicated or at least main log file in future releases? This
would be helpful in some situations.

Anyway, the core part of your client seems to work perfect out of the box.
So finally my monitoring solution is 100% Open Source. Thanks.

Cheers,

On 4/3/06, Etienne Grignon <user-87c74c1037a4@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hello everyone,


I publish today the second preview of BBWin, a free Big Brother Hobbit
Windows client.

You can download the MSI installer of this preview from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin

This preview contains the new following stuffs:


* The Cpu agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a full ps report
sorted by cpu usage

* The Disk agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage

* The Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory usage

* The Stats agent dll : just to send statistics reports like netstat for
trends purpose

* The external fsmon: a small script used to monitor folders (files
counting for IIS smtp queue for example)

* The externals agent can now work with report file using lifetime feature

* The uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library

* The converting tools: migrate your current bbnt configuration to the
BBWin configuration format instantaneously


Note : the cpu, disk, memory and stats agents are bbnt trends back
compatible. So, you will be able to keep your trends history if you are
moving from bbnt client.

Also, it contains the already existing stuffs with some bugs corrections.
You may look at the change log file to get more details.

* The executable BBWin: it is the native service in charge of executing
the agents

* The executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility to send messages
to an hobbit server

* The Externals agent dll: it is an agent in charge of executing all your
existing BB scripts or executables

* The Procs agent dll : it is an agent in charge of checking running
processes

* The Uptime agent dll: it will monitor uptime of the server including an
alarm if reboot recently. It was interesting to separate this alarm from cpu
column.

* The external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows clusters

* The external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows clusters

* The agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary headers to develop
your own C++ BBWin agents

After installing the BBWin package, please read the Readme.txt file to
understand its working. It is located in C:\Program Files\BBWin\doc if you
installed it by default.

Note : If upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new version, it will
upgrade your BBWin agent without erasing your existing configuration files.

The centralized BBWin version is not ready (I have to provide some hobbit
server side code to Henrik) so BBWin agents need local configuration for the
moment.

The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17th. It will contain
:

* the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart
features

* the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log

* Improvement of the cpu agent

* Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust)

* A better documentation


Also, I created a newsletter that you can use for questions, requests or
bug reports about BBWin.

You can subscribe to the list on :

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450


Etienne.

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Jeff Ehrenberg [mailto:user-c4fd7c902625@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:24 PM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available
	
	
	I have not been able to successfully start the BBwin service on
WIndows 2000 Server SP4.  It worked on my XP machine and I tried the
same settings on 2000 but it just won't start.  I tried verbose logging
(4) but it does not show much. 
	My event log shows the following:
	Event Type:    Warning
	Event Source:    BigBrotherHobbitClient
	Event Category:    Service 
	Event ID:    5
	Date:        4/7/2006
	Time:        12:41:51 PM
	User:        N/A 
	Computer:    XXXX
	Description:
	The configuration file bbwin.cfg in namespace bbwin has an
unknown setting : logreportfailure 
	
	Event Type:    Error
	Event Source:    Service Control Manager
	Event Category:    None 
	Event ID:    7031
	Date:        4/7/2006
	Time:        12:45:53 PM
	User:        N/A
	Computer:    XXXX
	Description:
	The Big Brother Hobbit Client service terminated unexpectedly.
It has done this 4 time(s).  The following corrective action will be
taken in 0 milliseconds: No action. 
	
	I tried to remove the logreportfailure setting, but it makes no
difference.  
	 
	bbwin.log
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started. 
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[INFO]: bbwin is started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started. 
	7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: [cpu]: Init cpu started
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[INFO]: bbwin is started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started. 
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started. 
	7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: [cpu]: Init cpu started
	
	any help is appreciated.
	
	
	On 4/3/06, Etienne Grignon < user-87c74c1037a4@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-87c74c1037a4@xymon.invalid> > wrote: 

		Hello everyone,

		
		I publish today the second preview of BBWin, a free Big
Brother Hobbit Windows client.

		You can download the MSI installer of this preview from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin

		This preview contains the new following stuffs:

		
		* The Cpu agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a
full ps report sorted by cpu usage 

		* The Disk agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage

		* The Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory
usage 

		* The Stats agent dll : just to send statistics reports
like netstat for trends purpose 

		* The external fsmon: a small script used to monitor
folders (files counting for IIS smtp queue for example)

		* The externals agent can now work with report file
using lifetime feature

		* The uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library

		* The converting tools: migrate your current bbnt
configuration to the BBWin configuration format instantaneously

		 
		Note : the cpu, disk, memory and stats agents are bbnt
trends back compatible. So, you will be able to keep your trends history
if you are moving from bbnt client.

		Also, it contains the already existing stuffs with some
bugs corrections. You may look at the change log file to get more
details.

		* The executable BBWin: it is the native service in
charge of executing the agents

		* The executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility
to send messages to an hobbit server

		* The Externals agent dll: it is an agent in charge of
executing all your existing BB scripts or executables

		* The Procs agent dll : it is an agent in charge of
checking running processes

		* The Uptime agent dll: it will monitor uptime of the
server including an alarm if reboot recently. It was interesting to
separate this alarm from cpu column.

		* The external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows
clusters

		* The external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows
clusters

		* The agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary
headers to develop your own C++ BBWin agents

		After installing the BBWin package, please read the
Readme.txt file to understand its working. It is located in C:\Program
Files\BBWin\doc if you installed it by default.

		Note : If upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new
version, it will upgrade your BBWin agent without erasing your existing
configuration files.

		The centralized BBWin version is not ready (I have to
provide some hobbit server side code to Henrik) so BBWin agents need
local configuration for the moment.


		The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April
17th. It will contain :

		* the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with
autorestart features

		* the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the
windows event log

		* Improvement of the cpu agent

		* Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more
robust)

		* A better documentation

		
		Also, I created a newsletter that you can use for
questions, requests or bug reports about BBWin.

		You can subscribe to the list on : 

		http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450

		
		Etienne.

I have not been able to successfully start the BBwin service on WIndows
2000 Server SP4.  It worked on my XP machine and I tried the same settings
on 2000 but it just won't start.  I tried verbose logging (4) but it does
not show much.
I tried to remove the logreportfailure setting, but it makes no
difference.

bbwin.log
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[INFO]: bbwin is started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: [cpu]: Init cpu started
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[INFO]: bbwin is started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: [cpu]: Init cpu started

any help is appreciated.

 Hi,

I use BBwin 0.5 on XP and works fine but "netstat" doesn't show any graph;
netstat.rrd is not present

Language (italian) may be a problem?

Thanks


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