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.
<br>My event log shows the following:<br>Event Type: Warning<br>Event Source: BigBrotherHobbitClient<br>Event Category: Service <br>Event ID: 5<br>Date: 4/7/2006<br>Time: 12:41:51 PM<br>User: N/A
<br>Computer: XXXX<br>Description:<br>The configuration file bbwin.cfg in namespace bbwin has an unknown setting : logreportfailure <br><br>Event Type: Error<br>Event Source: Service Control Manager<br>Event Category: None
<br>Event ID: 7031<br>Date: 4/7/2006<br>Time: 12:45:53 PM<br>User: N/A<br>Computer: XXXX<br>Description:<br>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.
<br><br>I tried to remove the logreportfailure setting, but it makes no difference. <br> <br>bbwin.log<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[INFO]: bbwin is started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
<br>7/4/2006 12:45:17:[DEBUG]: [cpu]: Init cpu started<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[INFO]: bbwin is started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: Thread for agent started.
<br>7/4/2006 12:45:53:[DEBUG]: [cpu]: Init cpu started<br><br>any help is appreciated.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Etienne Grignon</b> <<a href="mailto:etienne.grignon@gmail.com">
etienne.grignon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">
<p><span lang="EN-US">Hello
everyone,</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> <br>I publish
today the second preview of BBWin, a free Big Brother Hobbit Windows client.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">You can
download the MSI installer of this preview from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin</a></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">This
preview contains the new following stuffs:</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> <br>* The Cpu
agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a full ps report sorted by cpu usage </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The Disk
agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory usage </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The Stats
agent dll : just to send statistics reports like netstat for trends purpose </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
external fsmon: a small script used to monitor folders (files counting for IIS
smtp queue for example)</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
externals agent can now work with report file using lifetime feature</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
converting tools: migrate your current bbnt configuration to the BBWin
configuration format instantaneously</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Also, it contains
the already existing stuffs with some bugs corrections. You may look at the
change log file to get more details.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
executable BBWin: it is the native service in charge of executing the agents</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility to send messages to an
hobbit server</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The Externals
agent dll: it is an agent in charge of executing all your existing BB scripts
or executables</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The Procs
agent dll : it is an agent in charge of checking running processes</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* 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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows clusters</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows clusters</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* The
agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary headers to develop your own
C++ BBWin agents</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Note : If
upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new version, it will upgrade your
BBWin agent without erasing your existing configuration files.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<br>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The next
preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17<sup>th</sup>. It will contain :</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* the
Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart features</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* the Event
agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">*
Improvement of the cpu agent</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">*
Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust)</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">* A better
documentation</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Also, I
created a newsletter that you can use for questions, requests or bug reports about
BBWin.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">You can
subscribe to the list on : </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450</a></span></p></div><div style="direction: ltr;">
<span class="sg">
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> <br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Etienne.</span></p>
</span></div></blockquote></div><br>