[Xymon] BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit

[Carl Inglis]

> I'm having trouble getting BBWin to run on my Windows 7-SP1 64-bit
machine.  

[snip]

Things I've discovered (through trial, oops and doh!):

1 - make sure the service is started (the installer doesn't start it
automatically).
2 - make sure the hostname in the registry is correct.
3 - check your ghost clients.

> Bbwin logs that it starts up, and logs
> "The agent externals generated this event message : No externals have
> been specified", and sends nothing to the Xymon server.

Here's one of my bbwin.cfg files - this one doesn't get the error that
you mention (it did, until I moved the external tests outside the
<bbwin>):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<bbwin>
	<setting name="bbdisplay" value="10.239.96.100" />

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

	<setting name="autoreload" value="true" />
	<setting name="timer" value="5m" />

	<load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/>
	<load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/>
	<load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/>
	<load name="filesystem" value="filesystem.dll"/>
	<load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/>
	<load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>
	<load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>
	<load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
	<load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/>
	<load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/>
	<load name="who" value="who.dll"/>

	<setting name="loglevel" value="3" />
	<setting name="logpath" value="C:\BBWin.log"/>

	<!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as
warning events -->
	<setting name="logreportfailure" value="true" />
</bbwin>

<externals>
	<setting name="timer" value="3m" />
	<setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
	<load name="winUpdates" value="cscript //nologo //B
winUpdates.vbs"          />
	<load name="winupd"     value="cscript //nologo //B winupd.vbs"
timer="120s" />
</externals>

</configuration>

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Carl
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Carl Inglis 
Systems Administrator