Re: [hobbit] Windows Client

[Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant (at) steria.com>]

Le 01/08/2006 08:20, Everett, Vernon a écrit :
> Hi all
>  
> I have been asleep for a while, and not monitoring what's been going 
> on, but can anybody tell me the status of the Windows client?
> When I last paid close attention to the list, the client was in beta, 
> and if I recall, did a pretty OK job. (I installed it on a test system)
> But that was at the old job.
>  
> New job, new Hobbit installation, and the Windoze crowd want to see 
> the client.
>  
> What's news?


Hi

beta version 0.8 should be released today : 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=23853825&forum_id=48173

This is the actual change log for BBWin 0.8 :

BBWin 0.8 Preview version - XX July 2006
-------------------

+ New Features
* svcs agent has now a delay setting which tell the agent to do not
  monitor the Windows services for a short time after the startup
  of the computer
* Msgs agent have priority and count options
* You may use environment variables for hostname and paths settings
(registry and BBWin.cfg)
* Cpu agent can monitor uptime like the original Big Brother client
* Cpu agent reports usage for each cpu
*
+ Updates
* cpu agent on multi processor computers is now sending the correct cpu
  usage
* disk is now reporting correctly disk which had a size smaller than 1 mb
* autoreload is now on by default
* BBWin doesn't exits any more on errors
* Msgs default delay for match rules may be overridden by a generic setting


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Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis