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<DIV><SPAN class=140553213-01032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I do
know that the bb1.9c code does compile on windows under cygwin. My next check
was to see if I could get the bbgen client compiled using cygwin.
Maybe see if the hobbit code can compile under cygwin. Once compiled,
you do not need the full cygwin resources, but the cygwin dll. I have found
the BB win client to be very lacking in some regards. In my current environment
I need to stay with BigBrother, and am able not upgrade to Hobbit. So I am left
with the test thresholds configured on the client side. With the windows client,
configuration & thresholds are handled differently than the *nix clients.
Also windows client does not have the option to configure what color status to
alert on. Some of my servers need to alert on Yellow. Also, bb windows client
does not handle the full bb protocol, I have some custom scripts that need to
submit information via 'data'. So to me having a windows client that is
configured, and has all the same options a *nix is very
needful. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140553213-01032006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Of
late I just have not had the time to dig into this, but figured I would let you
all know compiling under cygwin with the existing source is
possible.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Norton, Peter
[mailto:Peter.Norton@Manage5Nines.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 01,
2006 8:10 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'hobbit@hswn.dk'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [hobbit]
Feasibility of Windows Client<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi
Etienne,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’ve been playing
around with getting the various bit of info, such as disk usage, cpu,
services, etc. using WMI scripts via .vbs. I’ve attached the
file.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’ve not touched it
for a month or so, but it might be of some use. The [ps] section uses the
Sysinternals tools plist.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My original idea was
to output the data in the same format as the linux client, so no further
coding was required in the hobbit daemon.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Peter</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Etienne
Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon@gmail.com] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> 01 March 2006 12:53<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [hobbit] Feasibility of
Windows Client</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi all,<BR><BR>I wanted to make you the
surprise but I think I have to announce it today.<BR><BR>I'm thinking of an
open source big brother hobbit client for months and started to code it 2
month ago.<BR><BR>The client is coded in C++ using the platform SDK, the
visual C++ toolkit (free edition of the compiler). I have written the program
with the idea: "I want to make it work without installing nothing more than a
default Windows 2000 installation".<BR><BR>It will work as a native service
and it will not be a monolithic program as the actual quest bbnt. We are
in 2006, I think each program should have been written to take part of the
plug in architecture. So, the service is actually an engine loading native
agent (dll). So, the service loads the agents and it schedules their
execution.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Of course, one of my agent is called
externals.dll and will be able to execute all existing scripts that every one
are using with the original bbnt. But, for the future, every one will be able
to develop native agents (using a small C++ api that I
wrote).</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So, at first, I'm working on externals
agent and with important agents as cpu, disk and memory (respectively:
cpu.dll, disk.dll, memory.dll). For events, I'm waiting to be able to
implement the same thing that Henrik is making for the unix
agent.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> About the configuration, it is done
thanks to the registry only for paths information, and the configuration of
the service and each agent is done with a nice XML configuration
file.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> About the installer, it will be a
native MSI written using the wix toolkit to be able to deploy the package very
easily. I'm working on it but for the moment, but my concentration for the
moment is really on the service and the agents.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Now, let's talk about the project
name:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> The software is called bbwin
(project already created on bbwin) I will try to post the source soon after
the preview release. (For the moment, I'm trying to find a nice way to publish
posts from my subversion repository to the cvs sourceforge repository :)
) </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>There will be 2
executables:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Bbwin.Exe : build as a native
service</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Bbwincmd.exe : it is a simple
command line client as bb.exe on unix, it is compiled with my hobbit protocol
C++ class implementing 95 % of the protocol. I posted a preview on sourceforge
: <A
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136450&package_id=149927&release_id=397674">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136450&package_id=149927&release_id=397674
</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>About compatibility, it should work
well on Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and also on Windows NT 4.0 SP
6. For 64 bits, I have no hardware to test for the moment. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Also, Henrik, you told us that you
knew someone working on it. Would it be possible for you to make me in contact
with him ? May be we could work together. Even, if for the moment, I don't
have much of native agents, I think working together could be cool and try to
get the best of the 2 windows clients. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>So please, wait some days, I'm
preparing a first preview so, you will be able to judge on it. I will post a
new message on the list on March 15<SUP>th</SUP> .</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Last thing, if you are going to renew
your bbnt licence pack, I think you should wait some time … :
)</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Etienne (aka sharpyy)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">From </SPAN></FONT>Paris</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN class=gmailquote><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">2006/3/1, Rich
Smrcina <<A
href="mailto:rsmrcina@wi.rr.com">rsmrcina@wi.rr.com</A>>:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Yes, the BB
windows client does work just fine. Word is that there is
a<BR>Hobbit windows client in development, which we are very eagerly waiting
for.<BR><BR>Ralph Mitchell wrote:<BR>> I would expect the Windows BB client
to be able to report to Hobbit - <BR>> after all, the other various BB
tests I've tried seem to work just<BR>> fine. I've never used
the Windows client, so I don't know if there'd<BR>> be much advantage in
re-inventing it.<BR>><BR>> Ralph Mitchell <BR>><BR>><BR>> On
</SPAN></FONT>3/1/06, Camp, Neil D. (ManTech) CTR <<A
href="mailto:neil.camp@deca.mil">neil.camp@deca.mil</A>> wrote:<BR>>>
Question to all,<BR>>><BR>>> What would be the feasibility of
building a windows client? <BR>>> Would you have to write it from
scratch?<BR>>> Could you potentially use cygwin dlls to
assist?<BR>>> Could you use the BB windows
client?<BR>>><BR>>> I am curious, and would like to pursue this. I
am not a coder especially <BR>>> for windows, but I would be willing to
give it a try. I just need some<BR>>> suggestions and input on what
direction to go, and if there would be any<BR>>> interest in a windows
client. Thanks!<BR>>><BR>>> --neil<BR>>><BR>>>
ManTech<BR>>> DeCA Operations Systems Administrator<BR>>> (804)
734-8353<BR>>> <A
href="mailto:neil.camp@deca.mil">neil.camp@deca.mil</A><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Etienne
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