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Just found a fix that works for me :)<br>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I've been
having difficulties setting up the bbwin client (ver 0.13
going to xymon 4.3.10 server) running on win7 sp1, 2008r2
and win2012 boxes in central mode. </span><span
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had zero response from the bbwin-help forum for this, so
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt">For background: I can't get the bbwin client
to stop sending all the logs, it ignores any maxdata
parameters I use. Eg:</span></div>
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<div> eventlog:system:1024</div>
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<div>It sends everything anyway. If I use log:system:1024, the
bbwin client throws an error that it can't find the system
log file. It does find the file without the maxdata
parameter.</div>
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One problem with the settings in client-local.cfg on the xymon
server is that they only propagate to the client after a successful
sending of a client message. The mechanics is that after the client
message has been sent, BBWin does a shutdown on the write socket and
then reads from the read socket until EOF. If the write socket is
never shutdown because the server breaks the connection due to
flooding, then the client-local.cfg section will never be sent to
the client.<br>
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I've previously attempted to manually create C:\Program
Files(x86)\BBWin\tmp\clientlocal.cfg to trick it, but with limited
success. Just played around with it again - with client reporting to
my primary server I just got it going - previously I was reporting
to 2 servers. The trick seems to be in having logfetch.status also
created. I then modified my BBWin.cfg back to 2 servers and it broke
again. Maybe the 2nd server is responding differently. It is
undefined which server's clientlocal.cfg to believe anyway :)
Swapped the order of the servers around and it seems stable.<br>
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If the server just discarded all the flooding data beyond MAXMSG_*
and then returned the client config section anyway maybe it could be
made to work, but there may be good reasons why that would not be
sensible.
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<div>This aside, I do need to get this working as I have to
start monitoring 10 new windows servers and have<span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt"> to monitor the event logs, so I can't
just stop sending them as has been suggested. Yes I
could do some powershell scripts and send them via
bbwincmd but the bbwin client is made for this task.....</span></div>
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<div>So, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt">looking at this from the other side, the
xymon server appears to be resetting the session after
about 22MB of data </span><span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
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style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt"> (I know, this is ludicrous, but it is
windows). Nothing in the xymond logs (except for the
occasional data flooding error ("1st line client",
always)); on the client side it reports it can't send
the data to the xymon server. </span></div>
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Depending on what auditting you have enabled, 22MB is very easy to
achieve! Turn on Security event logging including success and
failure and it's almost guaranteed :)<br>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt">I've set the MAXMSG_* to quite silly
levels:</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt"># ipcs</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div>------ Shared Memory Segments --------</div>
<div>key shmid owner perms
bytes nattch status </div>
<div>0x01034be7 16908288 xymon 600
102400000 2 </div>
<div>0x02034be7 16941057 xymon 600
102400000 2 </div>
<div>0x03034be7 16973826 xymon 600
102400000 2 </div>
<div>0x04034be7 17006595 xymon 600
102400000 2 </div>
<div>0x05034be7 17039364 xymon 600 262144
1 </div>
<div>0x06034be7 17072133 xymon 600 32768
1 </div>
<div>0x07034be7 17104902 xymon 600
102400000 2 </div>
<div>0x08034be7 17137671 xymon 600
102400000 2 </div>
<div>0x09034be7 17170440 xymon 600 131072
1 </div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt">Anything up to and including this size
has no effect on the problem.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt">Looking at the tcpdump stream, the bbwin
client sends data normally with regular ACKs from xymond
till around that 22MB mark then xymond responds with a
FIN packet, then with RST packets and the session shuts
down. Nothing in the packets themselves indicate what
the problem is.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);
font-size:12pt">If anyone can help with this, please,
it would be great.</span></div>
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<div>thanks, Phil</div>
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