bbwin 0.9 available

[Etienne Grignon]

Hello,

First at all, I'm deeply sorry for the large delay between 0.8 and
0.9. I will try to do not disappoint you the next time ...

For the 0.9, these are the news :


+ New Features
* Msgs agent reports events username and you may filter event with user name
* Msgs agent reports some statistics about each event log file. You can activate
  an option which alert you when an event log is full. See the help
chm file for details.
* New BBWinUpdate agent : it used for the semi centralized mode. You
can configure the agent
  to download configurations updates from a central hobbit server.
* First version of BBWin centralized mode implemented. Backend for
hobbit not coded.
  Look at the BBWin.cfg example in the doc folder or in the documentation

+ Updates
* system uptime sometimes returns 0 seconds on the first query. BBWin now send
  a green status when this happens to avoid incorrect alerts.
* msgs now formats description field in status so you don't have to
scroll your window
  to read a large event description
* disk agent reported alerts on unrecognized disks (like disks part of
cluster resources on
  the inactive node of an MSCS cluster). These disks are now
automatically ignored.
* cluster.exe is more verbose when it check the Windows version
* procs agent now is using rules with signs '+' or '-' because XML
format doesn't accept
  '<' sign in attributes ... However, the compatibility with '<' and
'>' is preserved.
* msgs summary option is removed. It is enabled by default and there
is no use to disable it.

+ Bugs
* limit option for cpu agent was wrong in the number of lines
reported, it is fixed.
* When an agent had no configuration in BBWin.cfg and if it was
loaded, BBWin crashed, it is fixed.
* msgs agent had a memory leak when an initialization was made to get
event description. it is fixed.
* wlbs script external had a bug to load the configuration file. it is fixed.
* cpu agent were always missing one process in the ps report. it is fixed.
* externals agent was crashing BBWin if its configuration was empty.
it is fixed.


For the centralized mode, there are no backend on the hobbit part for
the moment ... so, you can enable the bbwin centralized mode it to see
that it is working (You will be able to see the small link
"clientdata" in each status sub page of your host) but it is not
usable at this time.

The others news are that I tested BBWin 0.8 and 0.9 on Windows Vista
Ultimate, and it is working just fine.

I'm using BBWin on over 300 productions servers. The only problems I
got are resolved with the bug fixes included in BBWin 0.9. With the
bbwinupdate agent, you can centralize all or some of your
configuration rules even if it is not the fully hobbit centralized
mode that every body is expecting for.

Here the link for the download :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin

As always, let me know if you get troubles with this new version.


Regards,

Etienne