BBWin 0.7 available

[Etienne Grignon]

Hello everyone,


I publish today BBWin 0.7 (a free Big Brother Hobbit Windows client).
I know I'm late, I said it would be on last monday :-)

You can download the MSI installer of this preview from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin

This preview contains the new following stuffs:

* The msgs agent : it monitors the event logs. It uses match and
ignore rules with a lot of
options. Rules can be specified with EventId, Event type, Source,
LogFile and description
(perl regular expressions can be used).

* BBWin configuration auto reloading : BBWin auto reload can be set so
any change to the BBWin.cfg file
will indicate BBWin to reload its configuration without restarting the
service itself.

* bbpager : BBWin now supports bbpager feature (used with Big Brother
server, not compatible with hobbit)

* cpu improved : Cpu has been rewritten and reports now contains
process owner and priority

* Documentation: the documentation is now delivered as a chm file,
easyer to read than first my ReadMe.txt file. It will be more complete
with time. Also,
 it may contains many english bad spelling. I will take english
lesssons soon but you are welcome to send me corrections :)

* Migration tools: configuration migration from bbnt to BBWin for
bbpager and msgs has been implemented


Note : This new version now use registry for the hostname setting. I
decided that because it will help
to have generic BBWin.cfg files. You may delete the hostname xml setting
in your BBWin.cfg file and fill the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin\hostname.


The BBWin 0.6 contained the following stuffs :

* Resolution of a major bugs with the configuration agents which was
the cause of many crashs at the start or stop of the BBWin service.

* The svcs agent dll : it monitors the windows services
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I also create a poll on the BBWin forum page about future features of BBWin.
You are welcome to participate to it, so people can give ideas and
remarks so, we can improve BBWin
to obtain the best tool for everyone.

To finish, I would like to thanks Steve Aiello and Hermann-Josef
Beckers for their help in
testing BBWin.

Have a nice day,


Etienne.