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list Ricardo Alberto Schutz · Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:28:30 -0300 ·
Can someone help on this?

We are having some trouble with BBWin. Our linux clients are configured in central mode, so all the configuration is made on the server. Now we have to watch some Windows clients, which are configured in local mode.

The problem is with the "msgs". One specific client goes purple sometimes. But not the entire host, only msgs column. Procs, disk, memory, svcs and etc are all green, only msgs column goes purple.

My BBWin.cfg is as follows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin>     <setting name="bbdisplay" value="ourbbdisplay:1984" />
    ...
    <setting name="mode" value="local" />     <setting name="configclass" value="win32" />     ...
    <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>     <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>     <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
    <load many others...>
    ...
</bbwin> <cpu>     ...
</cpu> <disk>     ...
</disk> <externals>     ...
</externals> <memory>     ...
</memory> <msgs>     <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />     <setting name="delay" value="30m" />     <match logfile="System" type="error" alarmcolor="red" />     <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />     <match logfile="Application" type="error" alarmcolor="red" />     <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />     <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />          <ignore logfile="Security" eventid="537" />     <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="17" />  </msgs> <procs>     ...
</procs> <svcs>      ...
</svcs> <uptime>     ...
</uptime> </configuration>

Is there something wrong with the configuration? How can I find out why is it going purple? There's no "Client data" avaliable, maybe because it's running in "local mode"?

Thanks.

-- 
Ricardo Alberto Schütz - Consultor
Redix - Gestão em T.I. com Software Livre
http://www.redix.com.br - user-5105202f6a95@xymon.invalid
Tel. Coml.: +55 (47) 3323-7313
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list Etienne Grignon · Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:44:50 +0200 ·
Hello,

2008/4/22, Ricardo Alberto Schutz <user-14341ee58574@xymon.invalid>:
quoted from Ricardo Alberto Schutz
Can someone help on this?

 We are having some trouble with BBWin. Our linux clients are configured in
central mode, so all the configuration is made on the server. Now we have to
watch some Windows clients, which are configured in local mode.

 The problem is with the "msgs". One specific client goes purple sometimes.
But not the entire host, only msgs column. Procs, disk, memory, svcs and etc
are all green, only msgs column goes purple.

 My BBWin.cfg is as follows

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin>   <setting
name="bbdisplay" value="ourbbdisplay:1984" />
   ...
   <setting name="mode" value="local" />   <setting name="configclass"
value="win32" />   ...
   <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>   <load name="procs"
value="procs.dll"/>   <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
   <load many others...>
   ...
 </bbwin> <cpu>   ...
 </cpu> <disk>   ...
 </disk> <externals>   ...
 </externals> <memory>   ...
 </memory> <msgs>   <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />   <setting
name="delay" value="30m" />   <match logfile="System" type="error"
alarmcolor="red" />   <match logfile="System" type="warning"
alarmcolor="yellow" />   <match logfile="Application" type="error"
alarmcolor="red" />   <match logfile="Application" type="warning"
alarmcolor="yellow" />   <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />
<ignore logfile="Security" eventid="537" />   <ignore logfile="Application"
eventid="17" />
 </msgs> <procs>   ...
 </procs> <svcs>    ...
 </svcs> <uptime>   ...
 </uptime> </configuration>

 Is there something wrong with the configuration? How can I find out why is
it going purple? There's no "Client data" avaliable, maybe because it's
running in "local mode"?
The problem may be that there are too many events in your event log,
so it takes too much time to get the last 30 minutes events to be sent
to hobbit.

Could you check how many events are generated in your event log every minute ?

Regards,

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON
list Ricardo Alberto Schutz · Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:43:15 -0300 ·
Well, I surely can't count on my fingers how many events are generated every minute. But I can say it gets close to 200 security events per second. What would result in something about 360k events every 30 minutes.

Hobbit client shouldn't analyze these events and return to the server only the matching ones?

Thank you.
quoted from Ricardo Alberto Schutz
Ricardo Alberto Schütz - Consultor

--------------------------------------------

Redix - Gestão em T.I. com Software Livre

http://www.redix.com.br - user-5105202f6a95@xymon.invalid

Tel. Coml.: +55 (47) 3323-7313

Tel. Cel.: +55 (47) 9186-9868

--------------------------------------------



Etienne Grignon wrote:
Hello,



2008/4/22, Ricardo Alberto Schutz :
quoted from Etienne Grignon

  
Can someone help on this?



 We are having some trouble with BBWin. Our linux clients are configured in

central mode, so all the configuration is made on the server. Now we have to

watch some Windows clients, which are configured in local mode.



 The problem is with the "msgs". One specific client goes purple sometimes.

But not the entire host, only msgs column. Procs, disk, memory, svcs and etc

are all green, only msgs column goes purple.



 My BBWin.cfg is as follows



      

   ...

         ...

         

   

   ...

     ...

     ...

     ...

     ...

                       

   

     ...

      ...

     ...

  



 Is there something wrong with the configuration? How can I find out why is

it going purple? There's no "Client data" avaliable, maybe because it's

running in "local mode"?



    



The problem may be that there are too many events in your event log,

so it takes too much time to get the last 30 minutes events to be sent

to hobbit.



Could you check how many events are generated in your event log every minute ?



Regards,



  
list Etienne Grignon · Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:36:52 +0200 ·
Hi Ricardo,

2008/4/25 Ricardo Alberto Schutz <user-14341ee58574@xymon.invalid>:
quoted from Ricardo Alberto Schutz
Well, I surely can't count on my fingers how many events are generated every
minute. But I can say it gets close to 200 security events per second. What
would result in something about 360k events every 30 minutes.

Hobbit client shouldn't analyze these events and return to the server only
the matching ones?
If you have rules for the security event log, BBWin will parse every
event from the last 30 minutes. So, 360k events takes some time to be
parsed every 5 minutes.

Regards,

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON