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<p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal">Hi there,</a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal"></a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal">You can always try the checkwin agent. see: http://code.google.com/p/checkwin/</a></p><p class="">
<a name="_MailOriginal">When using the NSClient++ (nagios) agent, just be shure to use the NSClient++ 0.3.9 version.<br></a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal"></a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal">I didn't had the time to adapt this check to the NSclient++ 0.4.X version but till now, checkwin is working on all our Windows server versions. (not tested on Windows 8)<br>
</a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal"></a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal">B-Art</a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal"></a></p><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal"><br></a></p>
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<span style><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></span><p class=""><a name="_MailOriginal"><b><span style lang="EN-US">From:</span></b></a><span style><span style lang="EN-US"> Xymon
[mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Phil Crooker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> dinsdag 23 juli 2013 1:47<br>
<b>To:</b> Neil Simmonds; <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Windows Client</span></span></p>
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<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">I
agree, BBWin is not ideal, but it is surprisingly resilient considering it is
alpha code and with all the changes in Windows...</span></span></p>
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<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">One
way would be to put up some funding - maybe someone is willing to put in the
work. I'd be happy to contribute (monetarily that is - I, too, am no
programmer). We have a big 'investment' in xymon and it would be great if the
windows side was strengthened.</span></span></p>
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<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">BTW,
I have been using BBWin 0.13 on both 2008R2 and 2012, a dozen systems so far,
for a month or two in production. I think there was a problem once (on a system
with *huge* logging) where we have to restart BBWin but otherwise it has been
stable. It just takes (at times considerable) patience to work out the foibles.</span></span></p>
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<p class="" style><span style><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b></span><span style><span style="color:black"> Xymon on behalf of Neil Simmonds<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 22 July 2013 10:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Phil Crooker; </span></span><a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com"><span style><span style>xymon@xymon.com</span></span><span style></span></a><span style><span style="color:black"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Windows Client</span></span><span style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(40,40,40)"> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(40,40,40)"> </span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(40,40,40)">I know
this has probably come up before but does anyone know if there is an
alternative Windows client to BBWin that actually works. I’ve got problems with
both 0.12 and 0.13 versions of the client.</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"></span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(40,40,40)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"></span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(40,40,40)">0.12
doesn’t seem to work on Windows Server 2008 and 0.13 has a memory leak. This
issue has been recently raised on the BBWin sourceforge big list and the reply
was, </span></span><span style><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:rgb(85,85,85);background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">0.13 is mostly just a port from VS 2008 to VS2010. I don't
have the time to spend on improving it and to be honest it's probably not worth
spending the time. We really need a client developed on C# so that it can take
advantage of .NET's capabilities of hooking into the OS much more cleanly.</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"></span></span></p>
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<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:rgb(40,40,40);background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">I appreciate that this is open source software and as such I
don’t expect people to jump on it and fix it, however it appears that BBWin may
not be fit for purpose in the near future. I’ve looked at MrBig and WinPSClient
but MrBig seems to have no one maintaining the code and WinPSClient hasn’t been
changed in 2 ¼ years.</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"></span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:rgb(40,40,40);background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"> </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"></span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:rgb(40,40,40);background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Is anyone aware of any other options or has anyone considered
perhaps writing something? I’d look into it myself but I’m not a programmer so
although my VBScript and Shell script abilities are reasonable I wouldn’t
really be comfortable attempting something like this even though I have started
to look at learning C#.</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"></span></span></p>
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